The Surgery & Emotion project has worked with independent filmmaker Lily Ford to produce four short films to be made freely and publicly available here on our website. These films explore, in an engaging and accessible way, some of the key research themes of the Surgery & Emotion project and, taken together, provide a brief overview of the emotional world of both civil and military surgery from the late eighteenth century to the present day. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we did making them.
This film explores the emotional experiences and expressions of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century surgeons
This films explores the emotional dimensions of that most vital aspect of surgical education, anatomy.
Pre-anaesthetic operative surgery required patients to exercise remarkable self-control and contemporary commentators often lauded the fortitude of those undergoing intensely painful and bloody operations.
The twentieth century saw the transformation of surgery into a truly modern ‘scientific’ profession.
Image: William Watson Cheyne, Antiseptic Surgery, 1882 (Creative Commons).
