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Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep
Literature Influences Medicine
Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep
Literature Influences Medicine
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Pain and suffering, once associated with punishment for sin, became regarded as a purposeless evil that was hostile to human welfare. The works of Thomas Beddoes, Coleridge, and Shelley embody the change in attitude toward suffering and lay the groundwork for the general use of anesthesia in modern medicine. Papper contends that there was no real societal readiness to treat or prevent pain until the idea of the worth of the common man or woman was established by the upheaval of the French Revolution. The humanitarian concepts that we take for granted were relatively recent developments in Western society and were associated with the recognition of the importance of the individual.
Table of Contents
An Anesthesiologist's Attempts to Understand Pain and Suffering as a Medical-Literary Conglomerate
The Discovery of Anesthesia--An Outgrowth of an Understanding about the Prevention of Pain and Suffering
Thomas Beddoes, Sr., Physician and Philosopher
The Importance of Bristol as a Site for the Pneumatic Institute: Beddoes and Bristol
The Recruitment of Scientists, Writers, and Experimenters for the Pneumatic Institute
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Pain and Suffering as Experience
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Commentary and Summary
Epilogue
Supplementary Reading
Product details
| Published | 19 May 1995 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 176 |
| ISBN | 9780313294051 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Series | Contributions in Medical Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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