By David Shephard
From Craft to Specialty is a medical and social history of surgical anesthesia,from long before the advent of ‘modem’ clinical anesthesia in 1846 to thepresent day. It emphasizes the fact that, over the past century and a half,anesthesia has progressed from being a craft based on empirical knowledge,to a discipline in which a scientifi c approach began to shape its practice, and,fi nally, in the 1930s,to become a medical specialty that encompassed researchand formal education and certifi cation of practitioners as well as practice.Two other aspects of change in anesthesia are stressed in this comprehensivehistory. One concerns the change in the nature and scope of anesthesia.Today, anesthesiologists work not only in the technically sophisticatedenvironment of operating rooms but also elsewhere, specializing in themanagement of pain due to various causes, participating in intensive care ofthe critically ill, and involving themselves also in the resuscitation of victimsof sudden collapse. The second aspect of change follows on the fi rst, forthe diversity of the practice of anesthesiology is such that it now plays anincreasingly important part in health care.
FORMAT: Softcover
By David Shephard
From Craft to Specialty is a medical and social history of surgical anesthesia,from long before the advent of ‘modem’ clinical anesthesia in 1846 to thepresent day. It emphasizes the fact that, over the past century and a half,anesthesia has progressed from being a craft based on empirical knowledge,to a discipline in which a scientifi c approach began to shape its practice, and,fi nally, in the 1930s,to become a medical specialty that encompassed researchand formal education and certifi cation of practitioners as well as practice.Two other aspects of change in anesthesia are stressed in this comprehensivehistory. One concerns the change in the nature and scope of anesthesia.Today, anesthesiologists work not only in the technically sophisticatedenvironment of operating rooms but also elsewhere, specializing in themanagement of pain due to various causes, participating in intensive care ofthe critically ill, and involving themselves also in the resuscitation of victimsof sudden collapse. The second aspect of change follows on the fi rst, forthe diversity of the practice of anesthesiology is such that it now plays anincreasingly important part in health care.
FORMAT: Hardcover