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Invasion of the body : revolutions in surgery
Author
Title
Invasion of the body : revolutions in surgery / Nicholas L. Tilney.
ISBN
9780674062283 (alk. paper)
0674062280 (alk. paper)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
358 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-343) and index.
Contents
Introduction
1. Three operations
2. The teaching hospital
3. Evolution of a profession
4. Steps forward and steps backward
5. War and peace
6. The promise of surgical research
7. Operations on the heart
8. The mechanical heart
9. The transfer of organs
10. Making a surgeon, then and now
11. Shifting foundations
12. Unsolved dilemmas.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
General Surgery - history.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
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