Harold Ellis

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Surgery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written in a lively and engaging style, this book provides a fascinating introduction to the development of surgery through the ages. Heavily illustrated in colour, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Surgery is the only serious choice for a reader wanting a lively and informative single-volume introduction to surgical history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 285
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780521720335
• ISBN-10: 0521720338
• Artikelnr.: 24700282

Autorenporträt

Harold Ellis is Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Further reading
Picture index
1. Surgery in prehistoric times
2. The early years of written history - Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India
3. Surgery in Ancient Greece and Rome
4. The Dark Ages and the Renaissance
5. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: Part 1 - From the mid sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth century
6. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: Part 2 - From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the mid nineteenth century
7. The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis
8. The birth of modern surgery - from Lister to the twentieth century
9. The surgery of warfare
10. Orthopaedic surgery
11. Breast tumours
12. Cutting for the stone
13. Thyroid and parathyroid
14. Thoracic and vascular surgery
15. Organ transplantation
16. Envoi - today and tomorrow
Index.