Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

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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Glavni autor: Frampton, Sally (auth)
Format: Elektronički Poglavlje knjige
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Cham Springer Nature 2018
Serija:Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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