A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO ANESTHESIA HISTORY

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Layman's Guides to Anesthesia

2. Anesthesia History
-Audiovisual Resources
-General Histories
-General Anesthesia
-Primary Sources
-Equipment
-Military Anesthesia
-Regioinal and Local Anesthesia
-Pediatric Anesthesia
-Critical Care
-Obstetric Anesthesia
-Pain

3. General Medical History

 

 

1. LAYMAN'S GUIDES TO ANESTHESIA

see also:

*Anesthesia and Pain in the News
http://www.anes.uab.edu/news.htm

 

 

*Brown RC. Perchance to Dream: The Patient's Guide to Anesthesia. Nelson-Hall, 1981.

*Ernst FW, et al. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: What You DON'T KNOW about Anesthesia and Surgery May Harm You. Gateway, 1996.

*Furlong MW, Essman ET. Going Under: Preparing Yourself for Anesthesia. Autonomy, 1994.

*Galas JC. Anesthetics: Surgery Without Pain. [Encyclopedia of Discovery and Invention]. [juvenile]

*Your Anesthetic: What It Can Mean to You. HealthCom, 1973.

 

 

2. ANESTHESIA HISTORY

see also:

*Anesthesia and Pain History on the Internet
http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/anesnet.htm

*Anesthesia History Association
http://www.anes.uab.edu/anesthesia_history_association.htm

*Anesthesia History Files
http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aneshist.htm

*Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology
http://www.asahq.org/wlm/homepage.html

 

 

*Atkinson RS, et al. The History of Anaesthesia. Parthenon, 1989.

*Duncum BM. The Development of Inhalation Anaesthesia. Oxford University Press, 1947.

*Faulconer A, Keys TE. Foundations of Anesthesiology. Thomas, 1965.

*Fenster JM. Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It. Harper Collins, 2001

*Fink BR, et al, eds. The History of Anesthesia: Third International Symposium. Wood Library- Museum of Anesthesiology, 1993.

*Fradin DB. "We Have Conquered Pain:" The Discovery of Anesthesia. Margaret McElderry, 1996. [juvenile]

*Keys TE. The History of Surgical Anesthesia. Kreiger, 1978.

*Little DM. Classical Anesthesia Files. Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 1985.

*Morris DB. The Culture of Pain. University of California Press, 1991.

*Nuland SB, ed. The Origins of Anesthesia. Classics of Medicine Library, 1983.

*Pernick MS. A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth-Century America. Columbia University Press, 1985.

*Rupreht J, et al, eds. Anaesthesia: Essays on Its History. Springer-Verlag, 1985.

*Rushman GB, et al. A Short History of Anesthesia: The First 150 Years. Butterworth- Heinemann, 1996

*Schulte am Esch J, et al, eds. The History of Anaesthesia: The Fourth International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia Proceedings. Drager, 1998

*Thatcher VS. History of Anesthesia with Emphasis on the Nurse Specialist. Lippincott, 1965.

 

 

3. GENERAL MEDICAL HISTORY

see also:

*Medical History on the Internet
http://www.anes.uab.edu/medhist.htm

 

Monographs

*Cumston, Charles Greene. The History of Medicine: From the Time of the Pharoahs to the End of the XVIIIth Century. London: Routledge, 1996

*Gevitz, Norman, ed. (1988). Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine in America.
Johns Hopkins University Press.

*Leavitt, Judith and Numbers, Ronald, eds. (1997). Sickness & Health in
America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health
. third
Edition, Revised. University of Wisonsin Press.

*Magner, Lois (1992). A History of Medicine. NY: Dekker.

*Rothman, David, et al., eds. (1995). Medicine and Western Civilization.
Rutgers University Press.

 

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