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2015 ; 59
(3
): 421-42
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2015[Jul]; 59
(3
): 421-42
PMID26090737
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During the Great War, the French surgeon Alexis Carrel, in collaboration with the
English chemist Henry Dakin, devised an antiseptic treatment for infected wounds.
This paper focuses on Carrel's attempt to standardise knowledge of infected
wounds and their treatment, and looks closely at the vision of surgical skill he
espoused and its difference from those associated with the doctrines of
scientific management. Examining contemporary claims that the Carrel-Dakin method
increased rather than diminished demands on surgical work, this paper further
shows how debates about antiseptic wound treatment opened up a critical space for
considering the nature of skill as a vital dynamic in surgical innovation and
practice.
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