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Autore |
Bliss Michael |
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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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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 591 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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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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Note generali |
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Formerly CIP. |
Previously issued in print: 2005. |
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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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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. |
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