Celts under the Knife: Surgical Fortitude, Racial Theory and the British Army, 1800-1914
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DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2020.1734147
Abstract: ABSTRACT The nineteenth century saw an extensive cult of the heroic fortitude of the British soldier in surgery. Tales of men laughing through unanaesthetised operations were endlessly repeated in newspapers, military memoirs, surgical literature and… read more here.
Keywords: racial theory; surgical fortitude; fortitude; knife surgical ... See more keywords