Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep

Literature Influences Medicine

AvE M Papper

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

Del i serien Contributions in Medical Studies

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Beskrivning

Pain and suffering, once associated with punishment for sin, became regarded as a purposeless evil that was hostile to human welfare. The works of Thomas Beddoes, Coleridge, and Shelley embody the change in attitude toward suffering and lay the groundwork for the general use of anesthesia in modern medicine. Papper contends that there was no real societal readiness to treat or prevent pain until the idea of the worth of the common man or woman was established by the upheaval of the French Revolution. The humanitarian concepts that we take for granted were relatively recent developments in Western society and were associated with the recognition of the importance of the individual.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-05-19
Mått:156 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt:369 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions in Medical Studies
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313294051

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Smärta och smärtbehandling inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

E. M. PAPPER is Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology at the University of Miami School of Medicine where he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine until 1981. He is the author of hundreds of publications and is one of the legends of American anesthesiology.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Sherwin B. NulandAn Anesthesiologist's Attempts to Understand Pain and Suffering as a Medical-Literary ConglomerateThe Discovery of Anesthesia--An Outgrowth of an Understanding about the Prevention of Pain and SufferingThomas Beddoes, Sr., Physician and PhilosopherThe Importance of Bristol as a Site for the Pneumatic Institute: Beddoes and BristolThe Recruitment of Scientists, Writers, and Experimenters for the Pneumatic InstituteSamuel Taylor Coleridge: Pain and Suffering as ExperiencePercy Bysshe ShelleyCommentary and SummaryEpilogueSupplementary Reading