Gifted Hands America's Most Significant Contributions to Surgery

Name: Gifted Hands America's Most Significant Contributions to Surgery
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ISBN: 9781591026839

ISBN-10: 1591026830

ISBN-13: 9781591026839

Edition: 2009

Authors: Seymour I. Schwartz

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In this sweeping history of American surgical practice, a renowned surgeon, describes how surgery in this country advanced from the comparatively crude practices of pioneering physicians in the pre-Columbian and colonial eras to its current level of preeminence in scientific surgery today.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 1/27/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 259
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.39" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Pre-Columbian and Colonial Times



The Professor and the Pioneer



The Beginning of Clinical Experimentation Birth of a Specialty



Focus on Females



The Death of Pain



Two Prime Targets



Two Oft-Forgotten Contributions



Prodigy and Progenitor



Victory over Vessels



Besting the Chest



From One to Another: Organ Transplantation



Smatterings from the Specialties



Enabling Expansion


On the Horizon


Endnotes


Bibliography


Index