Martin S. Pernick, A calculus of suffering. Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America, New York, Columbia University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xv, 421, illus., $45.50.

Elizabeth Fee

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Martin S. Pernick, A calculus of suffering. Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America, New York, Columbia University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xv, 421, illus., $45.50.

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Information: Medical History , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 232 - 233

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Martin S. Pernick, A calculus of suffering. Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America, New York, Columbia University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xv, 421, illus., $45.50.

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