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100 1 _aFrampton, Sally
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245 1 0 _aBelly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
260 _aCham
_bSpringer Nature
_c2018
300 _a1 electronic resource (267 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aThis 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, while also remaining at the boundaries of ethical acceptability. This book traces the operation’s innovation, from its roots in eighteenth-century pathology, through the denouncement of those who performed it as ‘belly-rippers’, to its rapid uptake in the 1880s, when ovariotomists were accused of over-operating. Throughout the century, the operation was never a hair’s breadth from controversy.
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aSocial & cultural history
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650 7 _aGender studies, gender groups
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650 7 _aHistory of medicine
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650 7 _aGeneral surgery
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650 7 _aHistory of science
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653 _aHistory
653 _aHistory
653 _aSocial history
653 _aMedicine—History
653 _aAbdominal surgery
653 _aSociology
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