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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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Frampton, Sally (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Series:	Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Subjects:	History. Social history. Medicine-History. Abdominal surgery. Sociology.
ISBN:	9783319789347
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