Posts Tagged: Surgery
Surgery for Desperados
By Delia Gavrus In the 1920s, the notorious American bandit Roy Gardner riveted the public’s attention with his “hair-raising escapes from the law.”[1] He was arrested three times for mail robbery, and three times he made a successful run for
Surgery for Desperados
By Delia Gavrus In the 1920s, the notorious American bandit Roy Gardner riveted the public’s attention with his “hair-raising escapes from the law.”[1] He was arrested three times for mail robbery, and three times he made a successful run for
Amateur Surgeon or Dutiful Citizen? The First Aid Movement in the Nineteenth Century
By Sally Frampton ‘We have already with us the prescribing chemist, the herbalist, the bone-setter, the ‘electro-cure’ humbug…but now it seems that we are to go a step further and to be introduced to the policeman who, having attended a
Amateur Surgeon or Dutiful Citizen? The First Aid Movement in the Nineteenth Century
By Sally Frampton ‘We have already with us the prescribing chemist, the herbalist, the bone-setter, the ‘electro-cure’ humbug…but now it seems that we are to go a step further and to be introduced to the policeman who, having attended a
Butchers & Surgeons: Rethinking the 17th-Century English Surgeon
By Samantha Sandassie It would be an understatement to say that early modern surgery and its practitioners have a negative reputation. Popular narratives present surgeons as poorly educated men who performed invasive operations on unlucky and unanesthetized patients using unsterilized
Butchers & Surgeons: Rethinking the 17th-Century English Surgeon
By Samantha Sandassie It would be an understatement to say that early modern surgery and its practitioners have a negative reputation. Popular narratives present surgeons as poorly educated men who performed invasive operations on unlucky and unanesthetized patients using unsterilized
Crafting a (Written) Science of Surgery: The First European Surgical Texts
By Monica Green One of the challenges of medicine, in so far as it is a body of accumulated knowledge, is turning practices into words in order to preserve them. In some areas of medicine, the words themselves are the
Crafting a (Written) Science of Surgery: The First European Surgical Texts
By Monica Green One of the challenges of medicine, in so far as it is a body of accumulated knowledge, is turning practices into words in order to preserve them. In some areas of medicine, the words themselves are the
The Window Operation: Hope through Surgery
By Jaipreet Virdi-Dhesi “[Dr. Lempert] reached not quite as high as my shoulder. We liked each other on sight. He had read Cotton in My Ears and enjoyed it, he told me, as we stood talking when the meeting was
The Window Operation: Hope through Surgery
By Jaipreet Virdi-Dhesi “[Dr. Lempert] reached not quite as high as my shoulder. We liked each other on sight. He had read Cotton in My Ears and enjoyed it, he told me, as we stood talking when the meeting was
Surgical Devices and Placebo Testing – A Rehearsal
By Christopher Crenner Sometimes new forms of technology need a dress rehearsal before their premier. Early airplanes were like this, seeming to offer a lengthy prelude to Kitty Hawk. A succession of imaginative tinkerers and engineers worked on heavier-than-air machines
Surgical Devices and Placebo Testing – A Rehearsal
By Christopher Crenner Sometimes new forms of technology need a dress rehearsal before their premier. Early airplanes were like this, seeming to offer a lengthy prelude to Kitty Hawk. A succession of imaginative tinkerers and engineers worked on heavier-than-air machines
