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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

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This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen. Ovariotomy soon occupied a compl...

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Main Author: Frampton, Sally (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History,
Subjects:
Science > History.
Social history.
Medicine > History.
Surgery.
Sex.
History of Science.
Social History.
History of Medicine.
General Surgery.
Gender Studies.
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