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Title
Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
Subject
Surgery
Description
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 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.
Creator
Frampton, Sally
Source
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ede1c9a9-f201-44ed-86d1-a1bd16af1310/1007211.pdf
Publisher
Springer Nature
Date
2018
Contributor
Sawanah
Rights
Creative Commons
Relation
617 Surgery, Regional Medicine, Dentistry, Ophthalmology, Otology, Audiology
Format
Creative Commons
Language
English
Type
Textbooks
Identifier
ISBN 978-3-319-78934-7 ebook
Coverage
Frampton, Sally, “Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy,” Open Educational Resource (OER) - Unair Library. http://http://oer.unair.ac.id/