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With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England by Lynda Payne (Hardcover, 2007)

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With Words and Knives : Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England, Hardcover by Payne, Lynda, ISBN 0754636895, ISBN-13 9780754636892, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK Payne (history, U. of Missouri-Kansas City) investigates the dispassion, called clinical detachment today, that some men in early modern England acquired as a result of practicing medicine, especially anatomy and surgery. She places their lack of emotion in the context of the history of medicine going back to Roman times. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()