The Hidden History of the Surgical Revolution with Richard Barnett
- Carlyle's House
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £16.50
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Over 18
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Thu, 2nd Jun 2016 @ 19:00 - 20:15
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19:00 - 20:15
After Dark with the National Trust
Anaesthesia and antisepsis revolutionised nineteenth-century surgery, turning a gory trade into a clinical profession and saving countless lives. Well into the 1840s, surgeons dressed in their street clothes set to work on patients who remained awake throughout their ordeal. Operations were fast, in the hope of minimising pain, shock and blood loss, and mortality rates were high. Within two generations operating theatres had come to resemble laboratories, with surgeons and nurses clad in sterile gowns and working in near-silence. But there’s much more to this story than heroic surgeons and brilliant inventions. Does what surgeons know matter more than what they do? Has abstract learning driven refinements in operative technique, or have original ideas about the body emerged when a culture’s attitude to health and sickness began to change? And what did all this mean for the silent partners in surgical history – patients?
In this illustrated talk Richard Barnett, author of Crucial Interventions, will reveal the hidden history of the surgical revolution – and its connections with our own experiences under the knife.
Dr Richard Barnett
Richard Barnett is a writer, teacher and broadcaster on the history of science and medicine. He teaches the history of disease and the history of evolution on the Pembroke-Kings Programme in Cambridge, and in 2011 he received one of the first Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowships. His first book, Medical London: City of Diseases: City of Cures, was a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4, and his The Sick Rose was described by Will Self in the Guardian as 'superbly lucid and erudite'. His latest book is Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery. He has made many appearances on UK & US TV & radio, and you can find him online at richardbarnettwriter.com
Tickets £15 including a glass of prosecco
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| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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| Salon Ticket Includes a glass of prosecco | 19:00 - 20:15 | £16.50 |
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Carlyle's House, 24 Cheyne Row, SW3 5HL
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A Curious Invitation
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2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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