Harvey Cushing : A Life in Surgery.
Title:
Harvey Cushing : A Life in Surgery.
Author:
Bliss, Michael.
ISBN:
9780195346954
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (638 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Opening: The Surgeon and the General -- 1 Western Reserve: The Cushings of Cleveland -- 2 Making a Yale Man -- 3 Making a Harvard Doctor -- 4 Making an American Surgeon -- 5 A Window on the Brain -- 6 Opening the Closed Box: The Birth of Neurosurgery -- 7 The Bottom of the Box: Interrogating the Pituitary -- 8 Adieu the Simple Life -- 9 Adieu America: Cushing Goes to War -- 10 An American Surgeon at Passchendaele -- 11 Fathers and Sons -- 12 Johnson and Boswells: Chief and Harem -- 13 Sprinting to the Tape -- 14 Regius Professor at Yale -- Closing: Inheritance and Memory -- Notes and Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.
Abstract:
Drawing on new collections of intimate personal and family papers, diaries and patient records, Michael Bliss captures Cushings professional and his personal life in remarkable detail. Bliss paints an engaging portrait of a man of ambition, boundless, driving energy, a fanatical work ethic, a penchant for self-promotion and ruthlessness, more than a touch of egotism and meanness, and an enormous appetite for life. Equally important, Bliss traces the rise of American surgery as seen through the eyes of one of its pioneers. The book describes how Cushing, working in the early years of the 20th century, developed remarkable new techniques that let surgeons open the skull, expose the brain, and attack tumors--all with a much higher rate of success than previously known.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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