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100			_aSally Frampton _926047
245			_aBelly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy _b Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
260			_aUniversity of Oxford Oxford, UK _bSpringer _c2018
300			_a267 pages
520			_aThis 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 complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, while also remaining at the boundaries of ethical acceptability. This book traces the operation’s innovation, from its roots in eighteenth-century pathology, through the denouncement of those who performed it as ‘belly-rippers’, to its rapid uptake in the 1880s, when ovariotomists were accused of over-operating. Throughout the century, the operation was never a hair’s breadth from controversy.
600			_xScience / History Social Science / Gender Studies _937900
600			_xMedical / Surgery / General Science / General _937901
600			_xHistory / Social History Medical / History _937902
600			_x Medical › Surgery › General _927047
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