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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
547

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Subjects
Analgesia, Anesthesia, Cross-cultural studies, History, Pain, Therapy, Treatment, Pain, treatment, Pain Management, Analgesie, Anesthesie

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Table of Contents

A gift of the gods
The grape and the poppy
Roots, barks, fruit, and leaves
Pain denied
Pain ignored
The heresies
Healing and holiness
Islam
The age of the cathedrals
Pain exalted
Rebirth, rediscovery, and reform
Going to war
Foundations
Heavenly dreams
Animal magnetism
Pneumatic medicine
Laughing gas
The terror of the knife
Hospital disease
To the threshold
A gentleman from the South
"This Yankee dodge"
In Gower Street
And beyond
Chloroform
The shape of dreams
Mr. Anaesthetist
Conflicting views
The rights of pain
Who needs an anaesthetic?
The new physiology
The new pathology
The acute abdomen
Old drugs, new drugs
The bark of the willow
Cocaine
High Victorian pain
The power of pain control
Seminal years
The gift of Saint Barbara
Tic douloureux
Twilight sleep
Dolorism
Renoir
Pills and poisons
The surgery of pain
The schism
Pain mechanisms
Pain clinics
Hospice.

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Genre
Cross-cultural studies.

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Dewey Decimal Class
616/.0472
Library of Congress
RB127 .D67 2006, RB127.D67 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
547

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Open Library
OL3418477M
Internet Archive
worstofevilsmans00dorm
ISBN 10
0300113226
LCCN
2005034835
OCLC/WorldCat
62509126
Library Thing
2442775
Goodreads
1665244

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