Contents
1Between Art and Artifice: Emotion and Performance in Romantic Surgery
2Anxiety and Compassion: Emotional Intersubjectivity and the Romantic Surgical Relationship
3The Patient’s Voice: Conscious and Unconscious Agency in Romantic Surgery
4‘Scenes of Cruelty and Blood’: Emotion, Melodrama, and the Politics of Romantic Surgical Reform
5Quiescent Bodies: Utilitarianism and the Reconfiguration of Surgical Emotion
6The ‘New World of Surgery’: Sepsis, Sentiment, and Scientific Modernity