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Anthropology

wnylib

(24,923 posts) Tue Mar 29, 2022, 01:45 PM Mar 2022

Interview with Ira Rutkow, a medical historian, on the history of surgery. He discussed evidence of stone age brain surgery and the history of surgery from ancient times through the Middle Ages into modern times.

The interview was on NPR's Fresh Air program.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/03/29/1089213668/ira-rutkow-surgery-empire-of-the-scalpel

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Stone age brain surgery [View all] wnylib Mar 2022 OP

Anesthesia as we know it did not exist, wnylib Mar 2022 #2

Not all of them got markedly sicker Warpy Mar 2022 #3

The church opposed scientific developments wnylib Mar 2022 #4

Yes, the church did obstruct the dissection wnylib Mar 2022 #6

From the above linked article: wnylib Mar 2022 #7