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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
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FRAMPTON, Sally

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 complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, whil…

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978-3-319-78934-7
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XVI, 267 halaman
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Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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617 FRA b
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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
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FRAMPTON, Sally

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 complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, whil…

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