Chapter 3 Defining Difference : Competing Forms of Ovarian Surgery in the Nineteenth Century

Ovariotomy provides a useful way of unpacking not just the process of surgical innovation but also the usefulness of innovation as an analytical category in the history of medicine. How might we pin down the meaning of "innovation"-let alone "alternative innovation"-in surgery...

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Main Author: Frampton, Sally (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Rochester University of Rochester Press 2017
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