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Brilliant, volatile and invariably male, the surgeon stereotype is a widespread and instantly recognisable part of western culture. Setting out to anatomise this stereotype, Cold, Hard Steel offers an exciting new history of modern and contemporary British surgery. The book draws on archival materials and original interviews with surgeons, analysing them alongside a range of fictional depictions, from the Doctor in the House novels to Mills & Boon romances and the pioneering soap opera Emergency Ward 10. Presenting a unique social, cultural and emotional history, it sheds light on the development and maintenance of the surgical stereotype and explains why it has proved so enduring. At the same time, the book explores the more candid and compassionate image of the surgeon that has begun to emerge in recent years, revealing how a series of high-profile memoirs both challenge the surgical stereotype and simultaneously confirm it.

Surgeons --- Surgery --- Surgery in literature. --- History. --- Surgery, Primitive --- Medicine --- Operating room personnel --- Physicians

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Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Pastoral, theological, recreational, and medical writings are among the texts discussed in this wide-ranging study.

History of Medicine --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Christian poetry, English (Middle) --- Surgery in literature. --- Christianity in literature. --- Literature and medicine --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Medicine and literature --- Medicine. --- Europe --- Classical literature. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- History of Medicine. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- Medieval Literature. --- Classical and Antique Literature. --- History—476-1492. --- History. --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Health Workforce --- Medicine—History. --- Europe—History—476-1492.