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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Những tác giả chính: Frampton, S, Kneebone, R
Định dạng: Journal article
Được phát hành: Oxford University Press 2016