A Surgeons Century

Author : David L. Nahrwold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880696996
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Century of Surgeons and Surgery written by David L. Nahrwold and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging account of the creation of the American College of Surgeons and the dynamic individuals who formed the organization written on the 100th anniversary of its founding. Drs. Nahrwold and Kernahan have devoted four years to researching and writing this work, and the authors vividly capture the complex personalities of the leaders of the American College of Surgeons throughout its first 100 years.

Author : Jürgen Thorwald
Publisher : New York : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Century of the Surgeon written by Jürgen Thorwald and published by New York : Pantheon. This book was released on 1957 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis D. Moore, M.D.
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
ISBN 13 : 0309508304
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Miracle and a Privilege written by Francis D. Moore, M.D. and published by Joseph Henry Press. This book was released on 1995-05-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Moore entered Harvard Medical School in September of 1935, seven years before penicillin became available. During his remarkable career in surgery, research, and education, Moore has witnessed and contributed to some of the most important biomedical advances of the century, and his students now practice surgery worldwide. In this autobiography, he brings humor and warmth to the story of a lifetime at the forefront of medicine. In this fascinating book Moore describes his work in radioactive isotope research, burn therapy, breast cancer treatment, transplant science, and understanding the process of convalescence. Moore's colleagues have included such medical pioneers as George Thorn, David Hume, Thomas Starzl, John Gibbon, Steven Rosenberg, Harold Urey, and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Murray, and he recounts the setbacks and victories of their work. For example, he writes of the adventure he had with Charles Hufnagel in which 25 dogs, implanted with Hufnagel's experimental heart valves, made their escape into the Connecticut countryside and had to be recovered by dog control officers wielding stethoscopes. Yet Moore recalls with equal clarity the young mother who gave him a silver dollar for delivering her baby, the husband who begged that his ailing wife be allowed to die with dignity, and the desperately sick patients who made themselves available for experimental surgery and treatment. In one of his early operations he relieved "the pain, anguish, and threat to a wonderful small boy" by removing the boy's diseased appendix. He describes this capability as "a miracle and a privilege." The book includes a gripping account of the aftermath of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston in 1942, when Moore learned the horrific details of death by fire. He recounts both his experience with M.A.S.H. units and battalion aid stations in Korea and the sudden request from the U.S. State Department that resulted in his treating King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Moore's life story reflects his serious commitment to human well-being as well as his appreciation for the wonder of human life. Physicians, medical students, and all readers alike will find this book informative and inspirational. Francis Daniels Moore, M.D., is Moseley Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School and Surgeon-in-Chief, Emeritus, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston.

Author : Richard Barnett
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500773009
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery written by Richard Barnett and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated look at the evolution of surgery, as revealed through rare technical illustrations, sketches, and oil paintings The nineteenth century saw major advances in the practice of surgery. In 1750, the anatomist John Hunter described it as “a humiliating spectacle of the futility of science”; yet, over the next 150 years the feared, practical men of medicine benefited from a revolution in scientific progress and the increased availability of instructional textbooks. Anesthesia and antisepsis were introduced. Newly established medical schools improved surgeons’ understanding of the human body. For the first time, surgical techniques were refined, illustrated in color, and disseminated on the printed page. Crucial Interventions follows this evolution, drawing from magnificent examples of rare surgical textbooks from the mid-nineteenth century. Graphic and sometimes unnerving yet beautifully rendered, these fascinating illustrations, acquired from the Wellcome Collection’s extensive archives, include step-by-step surgical techniques paired with depictions of medical instruments and depictions of operations in progress. Arranged for the layman (from head to toe) Crucial Interventions is a captivating look at the early history of one of the world’s most mysterious and macabre professions.

Author : Lindsey Fitzharris
Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374715483
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Butchering Art written by Lindsey Fitzharris and published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail!" —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters—no place for the squeamish—and surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than patients’ afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn’t have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the riddle and change the course of history. Fitzharris dramatically reconstructs Lister’s career path to his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection and could be countered by a sterilizing agent applied to wounds. She introduces us to Lister’s contemporaries—some of them brilliant, some outright criminal—and leads us through the grimy schools and squalid hospitals where they learned their art, the dead houses where they studied, and the cemeteries they ransacked for cadavers. Eerie and illuminating, The Butchering Art celebrates the triumph of a visionary surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world.

Author : Arnold van de Laar
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473633672
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Knife written by Arnold van de Laar and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times 'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday 'Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering . . . a book that invites readers to peer up the bottoms of kings, into the souls of rock stars and down the ear canals of astronauts' The Daily Telegraph How did a decision made in the operating theatre spark hundreds of conspiracy theories about JFK? How did a backstage joke prove fatal to world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini? How did Queen Victoria change the course of surgical history? Through dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his experience and expertise to tell an incisive history of the past, present and future of surgery. From the dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, Under the Knife is both a rich cultural history, and a modern anatomy class for us all.

Author : Thorwald, Jürgen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Century of the Surgeon written by Thorwald, Jürgen and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Samuel Jessop Clarke
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9781903688502
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Surgeon's Century written by Richard Samuel Jessop Clarke and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ulster has produced an impressive number of surgeons who have gained world-wide renown. None has been more celebrated, or more deserving of a biography than Sir Ian Fraser whose life spanned almost the whole of the 20th century. Following a brillant university career, Fraser's training occupied most of the inter-war years. As with most innovatory surgeons, his career really flourished in war-time conditions. During the Second World War, he was at the forefront of the early field trials of a drug that would benefit the whole of mankind - penecillin - first, in the crucial allied victory in North Africa and then in Italy. For the courage and skill he consistently showed during during these campaigns, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. In 1945 came his timely appointment to the surgical staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, in which he was to serve with equal distinction until his retirement in 1966. Richard Clarke's sympathetic, insightful and not uncritical biography could only have been written by someone who was taught by Fraser and who then worked alongside him. The outcome is a fascinating, and informed overall view of Sir Ian Fraser, the surgeon, the teacher, the writer and, above all, the man.

Author : Judson Brandeis
Publisher : Affirm Science Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781737379607
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 21st Century Man: Advice from 50 Top Doctors and Men's Health Experts So You Can Feel Great, Look Good and Have Better Sex written by Judson Brandeis and published by Affirm Science Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 21st Century Man" reveals insider secrets that men in midlife and beyond need to recover, rebuild, and maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and sexual health. This is the book that all men will want after turning 40 to feel great, look good, and have better physical intimacy for the rest of their lives. Contributors include specialists from all fields of medicine and men's health. Authors include experts and board-certified physicians in cardiology, oncology and cancer genetics, vascular health, orthopedics, chiropractic, pain medicine, an infectious disease specialist, an ear-nose-and throat-physician, a podiatrist, a hand surgeon (writing on how to protect your hands), and a physician in sleep medicine, as well as experts in the emerging fields of sexual health and rejuvenation medicine.Lifestyle takes center stage in six chapters with practical options on weight loss and improving the quality of nutrition. Another six chapters focus on re-engaging in exercise without injury through strategies that begin with low-impact workouts or sports, stretching, yoga, or high-tech interventions. In terms of quality of life and mental health, the book offers practical, actionable steps from professionals on life coaching, family therapy, psychology, and parenting, as well as sexual healing and intimate wellness. The book also provides a clear recap of the latest research on reversing early dementia and protecting brain health. For midlife men working in a highly competitive job market, there are chapters on antiaging, rejuvenation medicine, hormone therapy, and plastic surgery.

Author : Audrey Blake
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 172822876X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Surgeon's Daughter written by Audrey Blake and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SheReads Best Historical Fiction Of Summer 2022! "This is an intense, suspenseful, and insightful read about the challenges both women and doctors faced in the 19th century...Our heroine rises to the challenge with courage and determination." —Historical Novel Society From the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl in His Shadow comes a riveting historical fiction novel about the women in medicine who changed the world forever. Women's work is a matter of life and death. Nora Beady, the only female student at a prestigious medical school in Bologna, is a rarity. In the 19th century women are expected to remain at home and raise children, so her unconventional, indelicate ambitions to become a licensed surgeon offend the men around her. Everything changes when she allies herself with Magdalena Morenco, the sole female doctor on-staff. Together the two women develop new techniques to improve a groundbreaking surgery: the Cesarean section. It's a highly dangerous procedure and the research is grueling, but even worse is the vitriolic response from men. Most don't trust the findings of women, and many can choose to deny their wives medical care. Already facing resistance on all sides, Nora is shaken when she meets a patient who will die without the surgery. If the procedure is successful, her work could change the world. But a failure could cost everything: precious lives, Nora's career, and the role women will be allowed to play in medicine. Perfect for book clubs and for fans of Marie Benedict, Tracey Enerson Wood, and Sarah Penner comes a captivating celebration of women healthcare workers throughout history.