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UNINA9910784750303321 |
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Autore |
Bliss Michael <1941-2017.> |
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Titolo |
Harvey Cushing : a life in surgery / / Michael Bliss |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-770695-9 |
1-280-53453-2 |
0-19-534695-5 |
1-4294-0344-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 591 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Neurosurgeons - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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