Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

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 (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2018
Series:Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Subjects:
Social & cultural history
Gender studies, gender groups
History of medicine
General surgery
History of science
History
Social history
Medicine-History
Abdominal surgery
Sociology
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