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Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
Michael Bliss
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Description for Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
Paperback. Harvey Cushing was the leading figure in the creation of modern neurosurgery. This biography traces his medical school education; his hospital-based surgical career; and his career as a battlefield surgeon during World War I. He has an enduring place in the field of medicine and his name has become part of medical lexicography. Num Pages: 608 pages, 61 photographs and line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGT; MNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 952.
Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) was the founder of brain surgery, an enormous surgical advance. Working at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the early years of the twentieth century, Cushing developed the techniques that enabled surgeons to open the skull, expose the brain, and attack tumors, with a high probability of helping rather than harming patients. Cushing became world famous as the first neurosurgeon, and was one of the first American medical leaders to attract visitors and students from abroad. Moving to Harvard and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Cushing in the 1920s made the apparently miraculous in surgery ... Read more
Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) was the founder of brain surgery, an enormous surgical advance. Working at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the early years of the twentieth century, Cushing developed the techniques that enabled surgeons to open the skull, expose the brain, and attack tumors, with a high probability of helping rather than harming patients. Cushing became world famous as the first neurosurgeon, and was one of the first American medical leaders to attract visitors and students from abroad. Moving to Harvard and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Cushing in the 1920s made the apparently miraculous in surgery ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
606
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195329612
SKU
V9780195329612
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About Michael Bliss
Michael Bliss holds the prestigious rank of University Professor at the University of Toronto. He has written numerous prize-winning books in medical history, including The Discovery of Insulin and William Osler: A Life in Medicine. One of Canada's most distinguished historians, he has received the Order of Canada and an honorary Fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons ... Read more
Reviews for Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
This book is a must for all students of early twentieth-century America, and not simply those interested in the making of modern surgery. This is an extremely rich biography, not least because of the fantastic array of letters that Bliss has been able to draw on.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine,Vol 81,
... It is beautifully written ... Read more
Bulletin of the History of Medicine,Vol 81,
... It is beautifully written ... Read more