Cold, hard steel: The myth of the modern surgeon (Social Histories of Medicine, 46)

The surgeon stereotype has long been a widespread and instantly recognizable figure in Western culture, but how did it come to be? In "Cold, hard steel," Agnes Arnold-Forster sets out to anatomize this stereotype, offering a fascinating new history of modern and contemporary British surgery.

Through archival materials and original interviews with surgeons, as well as a range of fictional depictions from classic novels to popular soap operas, Arnold-Forster sheds light on the development and maintenance of this enduring stereotype.

But she also explores a more candid and compassionate image of the surgeon that has begun to emerge in recent years, revealing how high-profile memoirs challenge and confirm the surgical stereotype at the same time.

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