The worst of evils : the fight against pain / Thomas Dormandy.
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TextPublication details: New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2006.Description: x, 547 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780300113228 (hbk.) :
- 9780300113228
- 616.0472 DOR
- RB127 .D67 2006
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 616.0472 DOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 202035 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-527) and index.
INTRODUCTION: PART I: THE MISTS OF HISTORY:- 1. A gift of the gods--2. The grape and the poppy --3. Roots, barks, fruit and leaves --4. Pain denied-- 5. Pain ignored-- 6. The heresies-- 7. Healing and holiness-- 8. Islam-- 9. The age of the cathedrals-- 10. Pain exalted-- PART II: SCIENTIFIC STIRRINGS:- 11. Rebirth, rediscovery and reform-- 12. Going to war-- 13. Foundations-- 14. Heavenly dreams-- 15. Animal magnetism-- 16. Pneumatic medicine-- 17. Laughing gas-- 18. The terror of the knife-- 19. Hospital disease-- PART III: PAINLESS SURGERY:- 20. To the threshold-- 21. A gentleman from the South-- 22. This Yankee dodge-- 23. In Gower Street-- 24. And beyond-- 25. Chloroform-- 26. The shape of dreams-- 27. Mr Anaesthetist-- 28. Conflicting views-- 29. The rights of pain-- 30. Who needs an anaesthetic?-- PART IV: THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN:- 31.The new physiology-- 32. The new pathology-- 33. The acute abdomen-- 34. Old drugs, new drugs-- 35. The bark of the willow-- 36. Cocaine-- 37. High Victorian pain-- 38. The power of pain control-- PART V: YESTERYEARS:- 39. Seminal Years-- 40. The gift of Saint Barbara-- 41. Tic douloureux-- 42. Twilight sleep-- 43. Dolorism-- 44. Renoir-- 45. Pills and poisons-- 46. The surgery of pain-- 47. The schism-- 48. Pain mechanisms-- 49. Pain clinics-- 50. Hospice.
Thomas Dormandy takes the reader around the globe and through the centuries to discover how different cultures have sought to combat and treat physical pain.