Belly-rippers, surgical innovation and the ovariotomy controversy
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 compl...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cham
Springer Nature
2018
Cham : 2018. |
| Edición: | First edition 2018. |
| Colección: | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430462206719 |
