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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tilney, Nicholas L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgery--History.

Surgery.

History.

Surgery--History--20th century.

Surgery--History--21st century.

General Surgery--history.

History, 20th Century.

History, 21st Century.

Medical Subjects:

General Surgery--history.

History, 20th Century.

History, 21st Century.

Physical Description:

358 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Honorary Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Tilney (surgery, Harvard U.) traces the history of modern surgery from the early 19th century as an interplay of the training and experience of surgeons, expectations and conditions of patients, characteristics of the hospital or clinic where the surgery is conducted, and the cost of medical care and the role of medical insurance. Among the stages of his narrative are the teaching hospital, war and peace, operations of the heart, the transfer of organs, shifting foundations, and unsolved challenges. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-343) and index.

ISBN:

9780674062283

0674062280

OCLC:

709670329