Originally published in 1992, Medical Theory, Surgical Practice examines medical and surgical concepts of disease and their relation to the practice of surgery, in particular historical settings.

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Democratic, Divine and Heroic: The History and Historiography of Surgery, Christopher Lawrence

2. Seventeenth-Century English Surgery: The Casebook of Joseph Binns, Lucinda McCray Beier

3. Surgery and Scrophula, Roger French

4. Giovanni Battista Morgagni and Eighteenth-Century Physical Examination, Malcolm Nicolson

5. Physiological Principles in the Surgical Writings of John Hunter, Stephen Jacyna

6. Practising on Principle: Joseph Lister and the Germ Theories of Disease, Christopher Lawrence and Richard Dixey

7. From Conservative to Radical Surgery in Late Nineteenth-Century America, Gert H. Brieger

8. Knowledge of Bodies or Bodies of Knowledge? Surgeons and Anatomists and Rectal Surgery, 1830-1985, Lindsay Granshaw

9. Experiment and Experience in Anaesthesia: Alfred Goodman Levy and Chloroform Death 1910-1960, Christopher Lawrence

10. The Ambiguous Artefact: Surgical Instruments and the Surgical Past, Ghislaine Lawrence

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