With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England - Lynda Payne - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9780754636892 - October 28, 2007
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The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. This book explores the idea of medical dispassion and shows how practitioners developed the intellectual, verbal and manual skill of being able to replace passion with equanimity and distance.


200 pages, includes 11 b&w illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released October 28, 2007
ISBN13 9780754636892
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 194
Dimensions 241 × 160 × 20 mm   ·   442 g
Language English  
Series Editor Cunningham, Dr. Andrew
Series Editor Grell, Professor Ole Peter

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