
Operating with feeling: Emotions in contemporary surgery
Author(s) -
Agnes Arnold-Forster
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/rcsbull.2018.12
Subject(s) - memoir , feeling , mythology , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , psychology , medicine , art , general surgery , art history , social psychology , literature
A new research project explores how the recent spate of medical memoirs has shattered the myth of the emotionally detached surgeon.