Empire Of The Scalpel

Author : Ira Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501163744
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of the Scalpel written by Ira Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery's development--spanning the Stone Age to the present day--blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling. There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-millions of major surgical procedures are performed annually but few of us pause to consider the magnitude of these figures because we have such inherent confidence in surgeons. And, despite passionate debates about healthcare and the endless fascination with surgical procedures, most of us have no idea how surgeons came to be because the story of surgery has never been fully told. Now, Empire of the Scalpel elegantly reveals the fascinating history of surgery's evolution from its earliest roots in Europe through its rise to scientific and social dominance in the United States. From the 16th-century saga of Andreas Vesalius and his crusade to accurately describe human anatomy while appeasing the conservative clergy who clamored for his burning at the stake, to the hard-to-believe story of late-19th century surgeons' apathy to Joseph Lister's innovation of antisepsis and how this indifference led to thousands of unnecessary surgical deaths, Empire of the Scalpel is both a global history and a uniquely American tale. You'll discover how in the 20th century the US achieved surgical world supremacy heralded by the Nobel Prize-winning, seemingly impossible feat of transplanting a kidney and how the heart-lung machine was developed, along with much more. Today, the list of possible operations is almost infinite--from knee and hip replacement to heart bypass and transplants to fat reduction and rhinoplasty--and Rutkow draws on his five-decade career to show us how we got here. Authoritative, captivating, and comprehensive, Empire of the Scalpel portrays the evolution of surgery in all its dramatic and life-enhancing complexity and shows that its history is truly one awe-inspiring triumph after another.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669390985
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Ira Rutkow's Empire of the Scalpel written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-25T22:59:00Z with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The history of surgery began with the discovery of cavemen who had performed neurosurgery. The skulls were found to have been trepanned, or deliberately removed a large portion of their craniums. #2 The ancient skulls that were found showed that Stone Age surgeons were able to perform complex surgery, such as trephination, which was the removal of part of the skull to treat convulsions, epileptic fits, mental illness, and other neurological maladies. #3 The stele, which was carved out of black basalt, is the most complete legal compendium of Antiquity. It was written and sculpted by the legendary Hammurabi, ruler of the Amorite dynasty of ancient Babylon, and was defaced and flaunted as a trophy of war in the twelfth century BC. #4 The surgeon was considered lower than the priest/ physician in Babylonian society, and the notion of caveat chirurgicus was established. If a surgeon had treated a gentleman for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and caused his death, he would be punished by having his hands cut off.

Author : Josh Ostrander
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302445618
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Wars Agent of Empire Vol. 1 written by Josh Ostrander and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Star Wars: Agent of the Empire - Iron Eclipse #1–5. Imperial power is at its height. With Palpatine on the throne and his chief enforcer, Darth Vader, leading fleets of Star Destroyers and legions of stormtroopers across the galaxy, the Empire is an unstoppable force for order and peace. But not every political problem requires military might; not every negotiation depends on a show of force. Sometimes all diplomacy needs to succeed is the right man, in the right place, with the willingness to get the job done. No matter what it takes.

Author : Gavin Francis
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619023407
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire Antarctica written by Gavin Francis and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International Space Station than it is to bring someone out of Halley in winter. Antarctica offered a year of unparalleled silence and solitude, with few distractions and a very little human history, but also a rare opportunity to live among emperor penguins, the only species truly at home in he Antarctic. Following Penguins throughout the year –– from a summer of perpetual sunshine to months of winter darkness –– Gavin Francis explores the world of great beauty conjured from the simplest of elements, the hardship of living at 50 c below zero and the unexpected comfort that the penguin community bring. Empire Antarctica is the story of one man and his fascination with the world's loneliest continent, as well as the emperor penguins who weather the winter with him. Combining an evocative narrative with a sublime sensitivity to the natural world, this is travel writing at its very best

Author : Derek Landy
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 130252383X
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All-Out Avengers written by Derek Landy and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects ALL-OUT AVENGERS #1-5 and material from FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2022: SPIDER-MAN/VENOM.Strap in for an all-new, all-adrenaline adventure that starts in the middle and races to the finish! An alien attack - a city warped - and Captain Marvel looking to the Avengers with murderous intent! Then, the Avengers are in chains, and their only hope lies with their greatest hero: Doctor Doom?! An army of Red Skulls threatens to overwhelm them, a cadre of bloodthirsty killers will hunt them, and even Spider-Man is out to get them! But who's behind this madness, altering the very fabric of reality over and over again? Something big is coming to the Marvel Universe! Take a deep breath before you open this book - because once you dive in, you won't be allowed up for air! The Avengers assemble for all-out action!

Author : John Allan Wyeth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Sabre and Scalpel written by John Allan Wyeth and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Dunwoody
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 193486174X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire's End written by David Dunwoody and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead refuse to stay dead. The Reaper is here to put them down. As winter sets in and America’s survivors struggle to rebuild a semblance of civilization, terrifying new enemies are gathering—both in the lawless badlands and within the walls of the safe zone. Most fearsome of all is the “King of the Dead.” His zombified troupe of sideshow curiosities is but a fraction of his growing pack. The Reaper’s quest to safeguard the humans he has befriended places him on the trail of these feral undead. But he is sorely unprepared for the return of the zombie transformed by his own flesh, the Omega—a fiend driven by something more sinister than any virus. Meanwhile, Death’s questions about his origin haunt him, and he is close to the answers... but the worst of both the living and the dead are rising in his path, and he’ll have to cut them all down to reach the cosmic endgame.

Author : Sarah Regal Riedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780561001845
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of the Scalpel written by Sarah Regal Riedman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence Bliquez
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283595
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tools of Asclepius written by Lawrence Bliquez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Tools of Asclepius Lawrence Bliquez offers the first comprehensive treatment in English of the instruments and paraphernalia employed by Greco-Roman surgeons since John St. Milne’s Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907). Introductory sections cover topics ranging from literary and archaeological sources to the design, materials and production of instruments and the training and practice of the doctors-surgeons who used them. Summaries of Hippocratic and Hellenistic surgery lead to the meat of the book: tools used during the Roman Empire. These are presented by category (e.g. Cutting Instruments) broken into subcategories (Scalpel, Lithotome, etc.). A substantial appendix deals with biodegradable items, such as suppositories. Much new material is featured and the book is richly illustrated.

Author : Christopher Ruocchio
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 075641301X
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Silence written by Christopher Ruocchio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the Emperor himself--against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire"--Publisher marketing.