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Michael Brown, Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)

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Agnes Arnold-Forster, ‘The Social and Emotional World of Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Surgery: The James IV Association of Surgeons’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 96:1 (Spring 2022), 77-101

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Agnes Arnold-Forster, ‘Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction’, History Workshop Journal 91:1 (Spring 2021), 157–18

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Michael Brown, ‘Wounds and Wonder: Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 43:2 (June 2020), 239-59

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James Kennaway, ‘Military Surgery as National Romance: the Memory of British Heroic Fortitude at Waterloo’, War & Society (April 2020)

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James Kennaway, ‘Celts under the Knife: Surgical Fortitude, Racial Theory and the British Army, 1800-1914’, Cultural and Social History (April 2020)

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Agnes Arnold-Forster, ‘Gender and Pain in Nineteenth‐Century Cancer Care’, Gender & History (March 2020)

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Agnes Arnold-Forster, ‘Resilience in Surgery’, British Journal of Surgery (March 2020)

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Agnes Arnold-Forster, ‘“A Small Cemetery”: Death and Dying in the Contemporary British Operating Theatre’, Medical Humanities (July 2019)

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Alison Moulds, Agnes Arnold-Forster, and Simon Fleming, ‘The Emotional Side of Surgery’, Journal of Trauma and Orthopaedics 7.1 (March 2019), 26-7

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Michael Brown, ‘Surgery, Identity and Embodied Emotion: John Bell, James Gregory and the Edinburgh “Medical War”’, History 104:359 (2019), 19-41

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Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison Moulds, ‘Medical Women in Popular Fiction’, BMJ Opinion (26 September 2018)

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Agnes Arnold-Forster, ‘Doctors’ Wellbeing - Learning from the Past Can Help Improve the Future’, BMJ Opinion (7 August 2018)

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Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison Moulds, ‘Surgery and Emotional Health’, The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons 100:6 (September 2018), 265-7

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Agnes Arnold-Forster, ‘Operating with Feeling: Emotions in Contemporary Surgery’, The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons 100:1 (January 2018), 12-15

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Michael Brown, ‘Surgery and Emotion: The Era Before Anaesthesia’, in Thomas Schlich (ed.), Handbook of the History of Surgery (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 327-348

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Michael Brown, ‘Redeeming Mr. Sawbone: Compassion and Care in the Cultures of Nineteenth-Century Surgery’, Journal of Compassionate Health Care 4:13 (2017)

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Michael Brown, ‘The Compassionate Surgeon: Lessons from the Past’, The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons 98:1 (January 2016), 28-9

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Michael Brown, ‘“Bats, Rats and Barristers”: The Lancet, Libel and the Radical Stylistics of Early Nineteenth-Century English Medicine’, Social History 39.2 (May 2014), 182-209

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