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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458614103321

Autore

Bliss Michael <1941-2017.>

Titolo

Harvey Cushing [[electronic resource] ] : a life in surgery / / Michael Bliss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-53453-2

0-19-534695-5

1-4294-0344-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (638 p.)

Disciplina

617/.092

B

Soggetti

Neurosurgeons - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 SourcesAcknowledgments; Illustration Credits; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Presents a biography of Harvey Cushing, an important figure in the creation of neurosurgery. This book traces his education at Yale, Harvard Medical School, and Johns Hopkins; his surgical career at Johns Hopkins and Brigham Hospital in Boston; and his career as a battlefield surgeon during World War I.