A miracle and a privilege : recounting a half century of surgical advance / Francis D. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Francis D. (Francis Daniels), 1913-2001, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moore, Francis D. (Francis Daniels), 1913-2001.

Moore, Francis D.

Surgeons--United States--Biography.

Surgeons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Joseph Henry Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. In this autobiography, he brings humor and warmth to the story of a lifetime at the forefront of medicine.

Contents:

Front Matter

IN MEMORIAM

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

B O O K O N E Student of Man

C H A P T E R 1 Medical Student

C H A P T E R 2 Harvard Medical School in the 1930s

B O O K T W O Middlewesterner: Born, Bred, Schooled, Wed

C H A P T E R 3 Family Origins, Childhood in the Trenches

C H A P T E R 4 Trains, Family Doings, and Travels

C H A P T E R 5 A Great School

C H A P T E R 6 Harvard College

C H A P T E R 7 Laura: Wife for Life

B O O K T H R E E First Years in Clinical Surgery

C H A P T E R 8 Surgical Residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital

C H A P T E R 9 Death After the Game: The Cocoanut Grove Fire

C H A P T E R 10 Defeats and Triumphs: Residency Is Not All Smooth Sailing

C H A P T E R 11 Finishing the Wartime Residency

White Suit to Civvies

C H A P T E R 12 Patient Outcomes, Ernest Codman, and Clinical Research

B O O K F O U R Basic Research and Academic Life

C H A P T E R 13 The National Research Council and Isotope Research

C H A P T E R 14 Body Composition and the Stuff of Which We Are Made

The Body Cell Mass

C H A P T E R 15 Getting Well

The Response to Injury and the Nature of Survival

C H A P T E R 16 Two Harvard Hospitals: The Brigham and the General

A Candidate for Promotion

B O O K F I V E Professor of Surgery

C H A P T E R 17 Surgical Professors, Ancient and Modern

C H A P T E R 18 Young Man at a Young Hospital

B O O K S I X Transplantation

C H A P T E R 19 Rejection, the Twins, and Radiation

C H A P T E R 20 The Advent of Drug Immunosuppression

C H A P T E R 21 The Liver: Transplanting the Body's Largest Organ

C H A P T E R 22 Broadening Scope

New Problems

Nonnumquam, Nocere Est Renovare

B O O K S E V E N Heart Disease and Cancer.

C H A P T E R 23 Opening Its Valves and Then the Heart Itself

C H A P T E R 24 Adoptive Immunotherapy of Cancer

B O O K E I G H T Surgery Abroad and Back Home

C H A P T E R 25 Korea

C H A P T E R 26 King Saud: Caring for the Royal Family of Arabia

C H A P T E R 27 The Midnight to Washington: National Responsibilities

C H A P T E R 28 Autres Chirurgiens, Autres Moeurs

B O O K N I N E Big News

C H A P T E R 29 1963 and a Cover Story

C H A P T E R 30 The Urge to Merge

A New Teaching Hospital for Harvard

C H A P T E R 31 A Nobel Prize for Joseph Murray

B O O K T E N Things Do Change

C H A P T E R 32 Ethics at Both Ends of Life

C H A P T E R 33 Trying to Retire

Letting Go Gradually

C H A P T E R 34 Laura's Death

A New Life with Katharyn

C H A P T E R 35 Leisure

C H A P T E R 36 Cool Streams, High Mountains, White Faces: Looking Back

Notes and References

Photo Credits

Also by Francis D. Moore

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-20959-3

9786610209590

0-309-50830-4

OCLC:

56118918