Invasion of the body : revolutions in surgery / Nicholas L. Tilney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011Description: 358 pages, [14] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9780674062283 (alk. paper)
  • 0674062280 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 617 23
LOC classification:
  • RD19 .T56 2011
NLM classification:
  • WO 11.1
Online resources:
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 challenges.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-343) and index.

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 challenges.

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