Sympathy under the knife: Experimentation and emotion in late victorian medicine

Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 100-124

  White, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230286030     Document Type: Chapter

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