John Wickham’s new surgery: ‘Minimally invasive therapy’, innovation, and approaches to medical practice in twentieth-century Britain
The term ‘minimally invasive’ was coined in 1986 to describe a range of procedures that involved making very small incisions or no incision at all for diseases traditionally treated by open surgery. We examine this major shift in British medical practice as a means of probing the nature of surgical...
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Oxford University Press
2016
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