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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

Part of the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78934-7

ISBN: 978-3-319-78610-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 29, 2018

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Chapter 1Introduction

Frampton, Sally

Pages: 1 –20

[This introductory chapter provides an overview of the history of ovariotomy and the significance the operation held within medicine and society. It reviews the place of ovariotomy in the historiography and particularly the interest the operation has garnered from scholars working on gender and...
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Chapter 2Pathologies, Actions, Ideas

Frampton, Sally

Pages: 21 –47

[This chapter examines the early history of ovarian surgery taking the story back to the eighteenth century. During this time, the ovary was believed to have a complex pathology, which made it an object of curiosity within the burgeoning field of morbid anatomy. Chaotic, deceptive and at times...
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Chapter 3Creating a Surgical Controversy

Frampton, Sally

Pages: 49 –91

[Chapter 3 brings together two medical innovations of the early nineteenth century which were to become deeply entangled: ovariotomy and the weekly medical press. This chapter focuses on the period between the 1830s and 1850s, a time during which the operation to remove diseased ovaries was given...
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Chapter 4Patent Concerns, Unpatentable Procedures

Frampton, Sally

Pages: 93 –130

[By the mid-1860s, perceptions of ovariotomy—both within the professional sphere and beyond—were undergoing a rapid turnaround. In 1865, the publication of Thomas Spencer Wells’ Diseases of the Ovaries: their Diagnosis and Treatment, in which the surgeon detailed all 114 ovariotomies he’d...
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Chapter 5The Business of Surgery

Frampton, Sally

Pages: 131 –170

[This chapter focuses on the financial implications of the operation for both patient and practitioner, paying particular attention to the period between 1870 and 1900 when there was increasing concern about the overuse of ovariotomy. The latter development is often read solely through changing...
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Chapter 6The Afterlife of an Operation

Frampton, Sally

Pages: 171 –212

[This chapter argues for a new way of thinking about the history of surgical innovation that moves beyond simplistic dichotomies of diffusion and failure. Instead it offers an exploration of the ‘afterlife’ of ovariotomy, following the controversies that surrounded the operation towards the end...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Frampton, Sally

Pages: 213 –220

[The concluding chapter argues for the need to nuance histories of surgical novelty and innovation beyond simplistic categories of success and failure and for the cultural and technological implications of surgical innovation to be seen as intertwined rather than separate. It addresses the...

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