Between art and artifice : emotion and performance in Romantic surgery -- Anxiety and compassion : emotional intersubjectivity and the Romantic surgical relationship -- The patient's voice : conscious and unconscious agency in Romantic surgery -- 'Scenes of cruelty and blood' : emotion, melodrama, and the politics of Romantic surgical reform -- Quiescent bodies : utilitarianism and the reconfiguration of surgical emotion -- The 'new world of surgery' : sepsis, sentiment, and scientific modernity.
Summary
"In this innovative, engaging, and archivally rich history, Michael Brown explores the relationship between emotions and surgery in the long nineteenth century. He examines how it transforms our understanding of the history of surgery and demolishes long-standing myths and stereotypes"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2022).