Harvey Cushing : a life in surgery / / Michael Bliss
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 591 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 617/.092 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Neurosurgeons - United States |
| 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 Sources; Acknowledgments; 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Harvey Cushing |
| ISBN: | 0-19-770695-9 |
| 1-280-53453-2 | |
| 0-19-534695-5 | |
| 1-4294-0344-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784750303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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