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Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep: Literature Influences Medicine

Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep: Literature Influences Medicine

Papper, E. M.

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Medical Studies, Book 42

Health General

ISBN10: 0313294054
ISBN13: 9780313294051
Publisher: Praeger
Published: May 19 1995
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.53
Language: English
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.

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