Bull Hist Med. 2022;96(1):71-101. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2022.0002.
Founded in 1957 by a group of elite British and American surgeons, the James IV Association of Surgeons is an international organization that "promotes communication among surgeons across the globe." Every year since 1961, the association has funded trips for several "surgical travellers" to encourage "exchange and camaraderie between surgical communities." This article uses the association's archive to explore the social lives, professional identities, and affective experiences of the men and women who populated the "surgical world" of Britain and North America in the mid-twentieth century. Integrating the social history of medicine with emotions history, I argue that the social lives of surgeons were crucial to the development and maintenance of their professional identities and communities by assisting in the definition of what it meant to be a surgeon. This definition was structured not just by surgical skill but by the forms of sociability available to potential participants.
由一群英国和美国的精英外科医生于 1957 年创立的詹姆斯四世外科医生协会是一个国际组织，旨在“促进全球外科医生之间的交流”。自 1961 年以来，该协会每年都会资助几位“外科旅行者”的旅行，以鼓励“外科社区之间的交流和友谊”。本文利用该协会的档案，探讨了 20 世纪中期在英国和北美的“外科世界”中活跃的男性和女性的社会生活、职业身份和情感体验。通过将医学社会史与情感史相结合，我认为，外科医生的社会生活对于他们的职业身份和社区的发展和维持至关重要，因为这有助于定义成为一名外科医生意味着什么。这种定义不仅取决于外科技能，还取决于潜在参与者可获得的社交形式。
