What A Blessing She Had Chloroform

A history of the use of anaesthesia in childbirth and the interaction between medical science and social values. It discusses how 19th-century physicians began ... » 

A history of the use of anaesthesia in childbirth and the interaction between medical science and social values. It discusses how 19th-century physicians began to think like scientists and how people came to reject the belief that pain was inevitable. «