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Joseph Lister and the performance of antiseptic surgery
This article highlights a neglected feature of Joseph Lister's work, namely how, in addition to promoting germ theories and the principles of the antiseptic system, he also devoted much time and effort to communicating the performative aspects of antisepsis and of the many other surgical innovations that he developed. Attention to 'detail' and striving for 'improvement' were crucial to Listeria...
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Joseph Lister was the pioneer of antiseptic surgery (Fig. 1). In the late 19th century, postoperative sepsis accounted for the death of almost half of the patients undergoing major surgery. Building on the work of Pasteur, Lister promoted the use of carbolic acid when operating. Antiseptic surgery became the norm and earned him the title ‘Father of Modern Surgery’. Just as antiseptic surgery re...
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In his revisionist book Bad medicine. Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates, historian David Wootton claims that, by introducing antisepsis with carbolic acid in surgery, Joseph Lister (1827–1912) was the first doctor to merge ‘science’ with the practice of medicine with resulting prolongation of life: ‘Lister thus begins the modern history of medicine, defined in terms of constant improvements ...
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