For those wishing to learn more about the history of medicine and indeed, anaesthesia, I list below some general reading and the sources I have drawn on most heavily. Any historical work is dependent upon a raft of other scholarship and this book is no exception. The in-depth historiographical framework upon which this book is based is laid out in my earlier work—Operations without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). For this reason, here I have mostly omitted scholarly articles because they are less accessible to the general reader.
John C. Burnham, What is Medical History? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005).
W. F. Bynum, Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
__________ and Roy Porter (eds), Companion Encyclopaedia of the History of Medicine, 2 vols (London and New York: Routledge, 1993).
__________ et al., The Western Medical Tradition, 1800–2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Roger Cooter and J. V. Pickstone (eds), Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century (London and New York: Routledge, 2003).
Anne Digby, Making a Medical Living: Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720–1911 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Joan Lane, A Social History of Medicine: Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750–1950 (London: Routledge, 2001).
J. V. Pickstone, Ways of Knowing, A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000).
Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997).
Richard S. Atkinson and Thomas B. Boulton, The History of Anaesthesia (London: Royal Society of Medicine Services, 1989).
A. Barr et al. (eds), Essays on the History of Anaesthesia (London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 1996).
Norman A. Bergman, The Genesis of Surgical Anaesthesia (Park Ridge, IL: Wood Library, Museum of Anesthesiology, 1998).
F. F. Cartwright, English Pioneers of Anaesthesia (Bristol and London: John Wright, 1952).
Thomas Dormandy, The Worst of Evils (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006).
Barbara M. Duncum, The Development of Inhalation Anaesthesia (London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 1994).
Richard H. Ellis, The Casebooks of Dr John Snow (MedicalHistory, Suppl. 14, London, 1994).
Thomas E. Keys, The History of Surgical Anaesthesia (New York: Schumans, 1945).
Christopher Lawrence and Ghislaine Lawrence, No Laughing Matter: Historical Aspects of Anaesthesia (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1987).
J. Roger Maltby, Notable Names in Anaesthesia (London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2002).
Martin S. Pernick, A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism and Anaesthesia in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).
G. B. Rushman et al., A Short History of Anaesthesia: The First 150 Years (London: Butterworth Heinemann, 1996).
W. D. A. Smith, Under the Influence (Macmillan: London, 1982).
__________, Henry Hill Hickman (Sheffield: History of Anaesthesia Society, 2005).
Linda Stratmann, Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2003).
Keith Sykes and John Bunker, Anaesthesia and the Practice of Medicine: Historical Perspectives (London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2007).
W. S. Sykes, Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia, 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Livingstone, 1960, 1961, 1982).
Richard J. Wolfe, Tarnished Idol, William Thomas Green Morton and the Introduction of Surgical Anaesthesia, A Chronicle of the Ether Controversy (San Anselmo, CA: Norman Publishing, 2001).
Philippe Aries, The Hour of Our Death (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Virginia Berridge and Griffith Edwards, Opium and the People (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987).
Hilton Boyd, The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicism on Social and Economic Thought, 1795–1865 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988).
A. S. Byatt, Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time (London: Vintage, 1997).
W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (eds), William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
Michael Crumplin, Men of Steel: Surgery in the Napoleonic Wars (London: Quiller Press, 2007).
J. Golinski, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
A. Hayter, Opium and the Romantic Imagination (London: Faber and Faber, 1971).
Christine Hillam (ed.), Dental Practice in Europe at the End of the l8th Century (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003).
David Knight, Humphry Davy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
Roy Porter, The Enlightenment (Hampshire: Macmillan, 1990).
________, Doctor of Society (London and New York: Routledge, 1992).
________, Flesh in the Age of Reason (London: Allen Lane, 2003).
Roselyne Rey, The History of Pain, trans. Louise Elliott Wallace, J. A. Cadden, and S. W. Cadden (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).
Peter Stanley, For Fear of Pain, British Surgery 1790–1850 (Amsterdam—New York: Rodopi, 2003).
Jenny Uglow, The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future (London: Faber and Faber, 2002).
Alison Winter, Mesmerized: Powers of Mindin Victorian Britain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Richard S. Atkinson, James Simpson and Chloroform (London: Priory Press, 1973).
F. F. Cartwright, The Development of Modern Surgery (New York: Barker, 1968).
Kenneth Allen De Ville, Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth Century America (New York: New York University Press, 1990).
Martin S. Pernick, A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism and Anaesthesia in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).
J. A. Shepherd, Simpson and Syme of Edinburgh (Edinburgh: E and S Livingstone, 1969).
Peter Vinten-Johansen et al., Cholera, Chloroform and the Science of Medicine, A Life of John Snow (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Peter Ackroyd, Dickens (London: Guild, 1990).
Janet Browne, Charles Darwin, Voyaging (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).
________, Charles Darwin, The Power of Place (London: Pimlico, 2003).
Donald Caton, What a Blessing She Had Chloroform (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999).
Roger Fulford (ed.), Dearest Child: Letters between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal, 1858–61 (London: Evans Brothers, 1964).
Judith W. Leavitt, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750 to 1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Elizabeth Longford, Victoria RI (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964).
Irvine Loudon, Death in Childbirth: An International Study of Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality 1800–1950 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).
Ornella Moscucci, The Science of Woman. Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800–1929 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Mary Poovey, Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (London: Virago, 1989). John Raymond (ed.), Queen Victoria’s Early Letters (London: B. T. Batsford, 1963).
Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady, Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830–1980 (London: Virago, 1987).
Graham Storey and K. J. Fielding, The Letters of Charles Dickens, vol. 5: 1847–1849 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981).
Dorothy Thompson, Queen Victoria: Gender and Power (London: Virago, 1990).
Martha Vicinus, A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1977).
Edward Wagenknecht, Mrs Longfellow: Selected Letters and Journals (London: P. Owen, 1959).
Maurice S. Albin, ‘The Use of Anesthetics during the Civil War, 1861–65’, Pharmacy in History 42 (2000), 99–114.
Tim Coates (ed.), Florence Nightingale and the Crimea, 1854–55 (London: The Stationery Office, 2000).
Henry Connor, ‘The Use of Chloroform by British Army Surgeons during the Crimean War’, Medical History, 42 (1998), 161–93.
Sue M. Goldie (ed.), ‘I Have Done My Duty’: Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War 1854–56 (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1987).
J. A. Shepherd, The Crimean Doctors: A History of the British Medical Services in the Crimean War (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1991).
Alexis Troubetzkoy, The Crimean War (London: Constable and Robinson, 2006).
Ian Burney, Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006).
Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987).
Frank Mort, Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830 (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).
A. N. Wilson, The Victorians (London: Arrow Books, 2003).
Lucy Bending, The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late NineteenthCentury English Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Roger French, Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975).
David Garland, Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies (Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1985).
Robin Gilmour, The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830–1890 (London: Longmans, 1993).
Pat Jalland, Death in the Victorian Family (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
David B. Morris, The Culture of Pain (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1991).
Martin J. Wiener, Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
______, Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Isabelle Bazanger, Inventing Pain Medicine: From the Laboratory to the Clinic (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 1998).
Jennifer Beinart, A History of the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford 1937–1987 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
Thomas B. Boulton, The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland 1932–1992 and the Development of the Specialty of Anaesthesia (London: Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, 1999).
Peter Drury, ‘Anaesthesia in the 1920s’, British Journal of Anaesthesia 80 (1998), 96–103.
Christopher Lawrence, ‘Experiment and Experience in Anaesthesia: Alfred Goodman Levy and Chloroform Death, 1910–1960’, in Christopher Lawrence (ed.), Medical Theory, Surgical Practice: Studies in the History of Surgery (London: Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, 1992).
Jonathan Miller, ‘Going Unconscious’, in Robert B. Silvers (ed.), Hidden Histories of Science (New York: New York Review, 1995).