Publications on the history of anaesthesia

E-book and paperback (published 3rd August 2021) available via Melbourne University Publishing

Waking Up Safer? An Anesthesiologist's Record
Author: Berend Mets
Price: £10.99
​Available from Amazon, and also https://www.silverwoodbooks.co.uk/product/9781781327494/waking-up-safer

Henry Hill Hickman

Dr W. D. A. Smith

£10 + £2 p&p (+additional £1 for 2 or more copies)

Contact Dr Adrian Padfield: padfieldadrian@gmail.com

A short history of the Section of Anaesthetics of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Society of Anaesthetists

Dr T M Young

£5 + £3p&p

Contact Dr Adrian Padfield
padfieldadrian@gmail.com

Die Entwicklung des Narkosewesens in Deutschland von 1890 - 1930

Michael Goerig and Jochen Schulte am Esch

59 Euros (plus shipping)

Flyer and order form

Historical Notes on Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Dr C. M. Ball and Dr R. N. Westhorpe
             
AU$66 (incl. GST and postage within Australia)

Copies can be ordered at the Australian Society of Anaesthetists website


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A History of Anaesthesia Through Postage Stamps

Dr Alistair McKenzie

RRP £9.50 + P&P

Contact Dr Alistair McKenzie
amckenzie.has20@btinternet.com ​




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The Development of Inhalation Anaesthesia

Barbara Duncum

£10 + p&p

Contact HAS Hon Secretary​






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Dr John Snow (1813-1858) His Early Years

Dr Spence Galbraith

£15 (£12 to members of the John Snow Society)

Contact Hannah Burke at johnsnowsociety@riph.org.uk

A short history of anesthesia in Japan

Dr Akitomo Matsuki

US$80 (plus shipping)

Further information

Anaesthesia and the Practice of Medicine: Historical Perspectives

Keith Sykes and John Bunker (contributing editor)

£18.99

Further information

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia

Held in Cambridge, 2005

£65 + £5.75 p&p

Contact HAS Hon Secretary

History of Anaesthesia VII (Proceedings of the 7th ISHA)

Dr H Askitopoulou  (Chief editor)

60 Euros (plus shipping)

See the website or download the order form for full details




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Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World

Stephanie J. Snow

RRP £9.99

Available from Amazon and other online booksellers





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Diary of a Doctor.  Surgeon's Assistant in Newcastle upon tyne 1826-1829.  

Edited by Alastair Johnson

£6.99

Publications,
City Library,
Princess Square,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE99 1DX

Essays on the History of Anaesthesia

Edited by Marshall Barr, Thomas Boulton and David Wilkinson

£10 + p&p

Contact HAS Hon Secretary​

Ether Day

Julie M. Fenster

RRP $24

Available from Amazon and other online booksellers

Memoirs of Dr Samuel Guthrie and the History of the Discovery of Chloroform and the Discovery of Anaesthesia by Henry M. Lyman

O. Guthrie and H. M. Lyman

RRP £8.66

Available from Amazon and other online booksellers

Wood Library-Museum Store

Reprints of a host of classic textbooks and scholarly works on the history of anaesthesia are available to purchase via the Wood Library-Museum online store

Operations Without pain.  The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain

Stephanie J. Snow

RRP £65 (hardback)

Available from Amazon and other online booksellers

Tarnished Idol. William T. G. Morton and the Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia

Richard J. Wolfe

$125

orders@jnorman.com
Review by Dr David Zuck - extracted from Proceedings Volume 30