Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Democratic, divine and heroic: the history and historiography of surgery; 2. Seventeenth-century English surgery: the casebook of Joseph Binns; 3. Surgery and scrophula; 4. Giovanni Battista Morgagni and eighteenth-century physical examination; 5. Physiological principles in the surgical writings of John Hunter; 6. Practising on principle: Joseph Lister and the germ theories of disease
7. From conservative to radical surgery in late nineteenth-century America8. Knowledge of bodies or bodies of knowledge? Surgeons, anatomists and rectal surgery, 1830-1985; 9. Experiment and experience in anaesthesia: Alfred Goodman Levy and chloroform death, 1910-1960; 10. The ambiguous artifact: surgical instruments and the surgical past; Index
