Harvey Cushing : a life in surgery / Michael Bliss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bliss, Michael, 1941-2017, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.

Cushing, Harvey.

Neurosurgeons--United States--Biography.

Neurosurgeons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 591 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Working at the John Hopkins Hospital during the early years of the 20th century, Harvey Cushing developed techniques which greatly advanced neurosurgical methods. This book looks at the life and career of a man who revolutionised brain surgery.

Contents:

Opening: the surgeon and the general

Western Reserve: the Cushings of Cleveland

Making a Yale man

Making a Harvard doctor

Making an American surgeon

A window on the brain

Opening the closed box: the birth of neurosurgery

The bottom of the box: interragating the pituitary

Adieu the simple life

Adieu America: Cushing goes to war

An American surgeon at Passchendaele

Fathers and sons

Johnson and Boswells: chief and harem

Sprinting to the tape

Regius professor at ale

Closing: inheritance and memory; Notes and Sources; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits; Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-061371-8

0-19-770695-9

1-280-53453-2

0-19-534695-5

1-4294-0344-6

OCLC:

630529134