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Operations Without Pain

The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in

Victorian Britain

Stephanie J. Snow

Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History

General Editor: John V. Pickstone , Centre for the History of Science, Technology

and Medicine, University of Manchester, England (www.man.ac.uk/CHSTM)

One purpose of historical writing is to illuminate the present. At the start of the

third millennium, science, technology and medicine are enormously important,

yet their development is little studied.

The reasons for this failure are as obvious as they are regrettable. Education in

many countries, not least in Britain, draws deep divisions between the sciences

and the humanities. Men and women who have been trained in science have

too often been trained away from history, or from any sustained reflection on

how societies work. Those educated in historical or social studies have usually

learned so little of science that they remain thereafter suspicious, overawed

or both.

Such a diagnosis is by no means novel, nor is it particularly original to suggest that

good historical studies of science may be peculiarly important for understanding

our present. Indeed this series could be seen as extending research undertaken

over the last half-century. But much of that work has treated science, technology

and medicine separately; this series aims to draw them together, partly because the

three activities have become ever more intertwined. This breadth of focus and the

stress on the relationships of knowledge and practice are particularly appropriate

in a series which will concentrate on modern history and on industrial societies.

Furthermore, while much of the existing historical scholarship is on American

topics, this series aims to be international, encouraging studies on European mate-

rial. The intention is to present science, technology and medicine as aspects of

modern culture, analysing their economic, social and political aspects, but not

neglecting the expert content which tends to distance them from other aspects of

history. The books will investigate the uses and consequences of technical know-

ledge, and how it was shaped within particular economic, social and political

structures.

Such analyses should contribute to discussions of present dilemmas and to

assessments of policy. ‘Science’ no longer appears to us as a triumphant agent of

Enlightenment, breaking the shackles of tradition, enabling command over nature.

But neither is it to be seen as merely oppressive and dangerous. Judgement

requires information and careful analysis, just as intelligent policy-making

requires a community of discourse between men and women trained in

technical specialities and those who are not.

This series is intended to supply analysis and to stimulate debate. Opinions will

vary between authors; we claim only that the books are based on searching

historical study of topics which are important, not least because they cut across

conventional academic boundaries. They should appeal not just to historians,

nor just to scientists, engineers and doctors, but to all who share the view that

science, technology and medicine are far too important to be left out of

history.

Titles include :

Roberta E. Bivins

ACUPUNCTURE, EXPERTISE AND CROSS-CULTURAL MEDICINE

Roger Cooter

SURGERY AND SOCIETY IN PEACE AND WAR

Orthopaedics and the Organization of Modern Medicine, 1880–1948

David Edgerton

ENGLAND AND THE AEROPLANE

An Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation

Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy ( editors )

THE INVISIBLE INDUSTRIALIST

Manufacture and the Construction of Scientific Knowledge

Thomas Schlich

SURGERY, SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

A Revolution in Fracture Care, 1950s–1990s

Eve Seguin ( editor )

INFECTIOUS PROCESSES

Knowledge, Discourse and the Politics of Prions

Crosbie Smith and Jon Agar ( editors )

MAKING SPACE FOR SCIENCE

Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge

Stephanie J. Snow

OPERATIONS WITHOUT PAIN

The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain

Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History

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Operations Without Pain

The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in

Victorian Britain

Stephanie J. Snow

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ISBN-13: 978–1–4039–3445–1 hardback

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Snow, Stephanie.

Operations without pain : the practice and science of anaesthesia in

Victorian Britain / Stephanie Snow.

p. cm. — (Science, technology, and medicine in modern history)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1–4039–3445–2 (cloth)

1. Anesthesia—Great Britain—History—19th century.

2. Anesthesiology—Great Britain—History—19th century.

I. Title.

II. Series.

RD80.5.G7S56 2006

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2005044511

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