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comes In 1687 and 1696, an English translation of book two of De curtorum chirurgia was published in London by ‘a Member of the College of Physicians’. Chirurgorum comes has been surprisingly under-used by historians of plastic surgery and other medical fields, despite the fact that it is now available in a large number of university libraries in the original, and many more through microfilm and Early English Books Online (EEBO). Most library catalogues even include Tagliacozzi as one of the text's authors. The authors of an article published in The Lancet of
reaffirmation of an enriched self. Each text in this chapter resists the trend in transplant commentary to downplay any sense of the received tissue as alien or to elide recipients’ imaginative work or distress. The texts figure recipient experience variously in terms of mutual enfleshment across shared tissue, possession by multiple non-human forces, and an evacuation of self and agency altogether, in crises both affective and ontological. Ultimately, the works unsettle not only a distinction between self and other but also the idea of transplantation surgery as a time
demonstrated that this was not a valid test for all purposes: elective cardiac arrest during openheart surgery, for example, or cases of spontaneous cardiac arrest followed by successful resuscitation. The heart stops but the patient is not dead. Machines such as mechanical ventilators or respirators have effected major improvements in techniques of resuscitation and life support for those who are desperately ill or injured. Where these efforts are successful and the patients recover, one may praise the advances in medical techniques. Sometimes such measures do not provide
abortionists across London and England. While the Register excluded many suspicious deaths from abortions in which criminal charges were not brought, cases from the Register still provide a compelling geography of criminal abortion focused on the districts of London north of the river, and taking place in borrowed flats, rented rooms, at least one hotel and in doctors’ surgeries.2 The deaths recorded between 1933 and 1953 in the Metropolitan Police Register of Violent Deaths showed the most concentrated number of cases of maternal death in London as a result of illegal
understandable focus of most studies of ‘body modification’ – the manipulation of the self at the level of skin and flesh was by no means unknown. Aside from cosmetics, wigs, or surgery, cleanliness was held to be one of the marks of gentility – what then of the use of perfumes, powders, and a vigorous scrub that might hide the scent and appearance of a lower rank, poor health, or even – for King Lear – ‘mortality’? 5 As anxiety over sumptuary regulations and Eliav-Feldon's discussion of other outward markings tied to identity shows, the closer an interpretative link between
decision to perform spinal surgery on a minor who had been raped and attempted suicide, severely injuring herself. L.C. was also refused therapeutic abortion. Similar stereotypes operate to restrict access to contraception: pharmacists and health personnel in public dispensing have claimed, for example, their right to conscientious objection in refusing to accept requests for contraceptives and refusing to fill a doctor’s prescription of contraceptives.78 Conversely, involuntary sterilisation goes in the direction of denying women motherhood. The stereotype here sees the
profession was not only a slow process, it was also marked by disciplinary hierarchies. Women gained access most easily to disciplines such as paediatrics and gynaecology, which were considered to be ‘natural’ fields of specialisation for women in and beyond Belgium, while ‘masculine disciplines’ such as surgery, urology and orthopaedics remained highly closed to them. In
, feeling so damned empty, and helpless … and sad. [original ellipses]50 In January 1969 that emotional connection comes so much closer when he must try and save the life of his friend, Corporal Rollins. Holley describes in detail the three-and-a-half-hour surgery to try and repair Rollins’s injuries. Here, he loses the detachment normally crucial for a surgeon in his position: I looked over at the window of the OR door and was surprised to see eight of our good buddies looking over each other’s shoulders, crowded around the small porthole of a window. I just shook my
Conclusions 179 9 Conclusions This book has mobilised the often intimate and intricate stories of individual travellers and workers in the cosmetic surgery tourism industry, alongside aggregate data, to illustrate the complex and uneven phenomenon that is cosmetic surgery tourism. Along the way we hope we have robustly dispelled some of the more common stereotypes of rich, vain women or duped young women travelling on a whim without knowledge of or preparation for surgeries in countries with cowboy surgeons and substandard healthcare. Instead, we have
1.1a Jason straight after surgery. Surgeons say results look best ‘on the table’ 1.1b Jason’s complication – a ‘little bleed’ and ruptured stitches 1.1c Jason’s infection needed vacuum pump treatment in an NHS facility 1.1d Jason’s final result, front 1.1e Jason’s final result, side 1.2 Neil (UK to Czech Republic and Poland) demonstrating what he called his ‘mushroom’ after weight-loss surgery but before body contouring HOLLIDAY PLATES (Colour).indd 1 18/04/2019 11:43 1.3 A bedside table in a Tunisian clinic 1.4a Durian street-seller in front of a