Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations-from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers a wealth of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating room. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a bacterium, a cancer cell or a bullet? And, as…mehr
Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations-from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers a wealth of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating room. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a bacterium, a cancer cell or a bullet? And, as medical advances continuously push the boundaries of what medicine can cure, what are the limits of surgery? With stories spanning the dark centuries of bloodletting and amputations without anaesthetic through today's sterile, high-tech operating rooms, Under the Knife is both a rich cultural history, and a modern anatomy class for us all.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Introduction - Healing by Hand: Chirurgeons and Surgeons 1. Lithotomy - The Stone of Jan de Doot, Smith of Amsterdam 2. Asphyxia - The Tracheotomy of the Century: President Kennedy 3. Wound Healing - The Royal Prepuce: Abraham and King Louis XVI 4. Shock - The Lady and the Anarchist: Empress Sisi 5. Obesity - Popes: From Peter to Francis 6. Stoma - The Miracle Bullet: Karol Wojtyla 7. Fracture - Dr Democedes and the Greek Method: King Darius 8. Varicose Veins - Lucy and Modern-Day Surgery: Australopithecus afarensis 9. Peritonitis - The Death of an Escape Artist: Harry Houdini 10. Narcosis - L'anaethesie a la reine: Queen Victoria 11. Gangrene - The Battle of Little Bay: Peter Stuyvesant 12. Diagnosis - Doctors and Surgeons: Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes 13. Complications - The Maestro and the Shah: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 14. Dissemination - Two Musicians and Their Big Toes: Lully and Bob Marley 15. Abdomen - The Romans and Abdominoplasty: Lucius Apronius Caesianus 16. Aneurysm - The Relativity Surgery: Albert Einstein 17. Laparoscopy - Endoscopy and the Minimal Invasive Revolution 18. Castration - The History of a Very Small Operation: Adam, Eve and Farinelli 19. Lung Cancer - Thracotomy at Home: King George VI 20. Placebo - The Fifth Man on the Moon: Alan Shepard 21. Umbilical Hernia - The Miserable Death of a Stout Lady: Queen Caroline 22. Short Stay, Fast Track - Rebels and Revolutions: Bassini and Lichtenstein 23. Mors in tabula - The Limits of Surgery: Lee Harvey Oswald 24. Prosthesis - Une belle epaule de la belle epoque: The Baker Jules Paradox 25. Stroke - The Neck of Vladimir Ilyich Uljanov: Lenin 26. Gastrectomy - Cowboys and Surgeons: Frau Therese Heller 27. Anal Fistula - La Grande Operation: King Louis XIV 28. Electricity - 600 Volts: The Electric Eel at Artis Zoo Epilogue - The Surgeon of the Future: A Top 10
Introduction - Healing by Hand: Chirurgeons and Surgeons 1. Lithotomy - The Stone of Jan de Doot, Smith of Amsterdam 2. Asphyxia - The Tracheotomy of the Century: President Kennedy 3. Wound Healing - The Royal Prepuce: Abraham and King Louis XVI 4. Shock - The Lady and the Anarchist: Empress Sisi 5. Obesity - Popes: From Peter to Francis 6. Stoma - The Miracle Bullet: Karol Wojtyla 7. Fracture - Dr Democedes and the Greek Method: King Darius 8. Varicose Veins - Lucy and Modern-Day Surgery: Australopithecus afarensis 9. Peritonitis - The Death of an Escape Artist: Harry Houdini 10. Narcosis - L'anaethesie a la reine: Queen Victoria 11. Gangrene - The Battle of Little Bay: Peter Stuyvesant 12. Diagnosis - Doctors and Surgeons: Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes 13. Complications - The Maestro and the Shah: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 14. Dissemination - Two Musicians and Their Big Toes: Lully and Bob Marley 15. Abdomen - The Romans and Abdominoplasty: Lucius Apronius Caesianus 16. Aneurysm - The Relativity Surgery: Albert Einstein 17. Laparoscopy - Endoscopy and the Minimal Invasive Revolution 18. Castration - The History of a Very Small Operation: Adam, Eve and Farinelli 19. Lung Cancer - Thracotomy at Home: King George VI 20. Placebo - The Fifth Man on the Moon: Alan Shepard 21. Umbilical Hernia - The Miserable Death of a Stout Lady: Queen Caroline 22. Short Stay, Fast Track - Rebels and Revolutions: Bassini and Lichtenstein 23. Mors in tabula - The Limits of Surgery: Lee Harvey Oswald 24. Prosthesis - Une belle epaule de la belle epoque: The Baker Jules Paradox 25. Stroke - The Neck of Vladimir Ilyich Uljanov: Lenin 26. Gastrectomy - Cowboys and Surgeons: Frau Therese Heller 27. Anal Fistula - La Grande Operation: King Louis XIV 28. Electricity - 600 Volts: The Electric Eel at Artis Zoo Epilogue - The Surgeon of the Future: A Top 10
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