Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra

Vignettes on Surgery, History and Humanities (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces writings on the history and philosophy of surgery that previously appeared in the Journal of Investigative Surgery. It attempts to reach students of history in general and those interested in the history and philosophy of surgery in particular.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040196328
• Artikelnr.: 72538524

Autorenporträt

Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Surgery of Old Times 1. Times of Surgery 2. Medicine in Ancient
Egypt 3. Ancient India 4. Ancient Far East 5. Ancient Greece-Pergamum 6.
Turkey 7. Ancient Mexico 8. Early America Section II: Surgery: Old Masters,
Pioneers and Others 9. Galen (130 A.D.-200 A .D .) 10. Avicenna (981
A.D.-1032 A .D .) 11. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) 12. Ambroise Pare
(1510-1590) 13. Andreas Vesalius (1514-1567) 14. John Hunter (1728-1793)
15. William Shippen, Jr. (1736-1808) 16. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) 17.
Philip Syng Physick (1768-1837) 18. John Syng Dorsey (1782-1818) 19.
William Beaumont (1785-1853) 20. Paul Broca (1824-1880) 21. Joseph Lister
(1827-1912) 22. Theodor Billroth (1829-1894) 23. Theodor Kocher (1841-1917)
24. Charles McBurney (1843-1913) 25. Carl Johann August Langenbuch
(1846-1901) 26. William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922) 27. Harvey Cushing
(1869-1939) 28. Marie Joseph Auguste Carrel (1873-1941) 29. Ferdinand
Sauerbruch (1875-1951) 30. Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) 31. Charles Brenton
Huggins (1901-1997) Section III: Surgery: Anesthesia 32. Founders of Modern
Surgery 33. Pioneering Steps in Anesthesia Section IV: Surgery: The
Encounter with Transplantation 34. Organ Transplantation: From Myth to
Reality 35. The Origin and Future of Transplant Surgery 36. The Long
Journey to Cardiac Transplantation 37. The Man and the Father of
Transplantation Section V: Other Historical Aspects 38. British Colonial
America 39. First American Medical Schools 40. Military Surgery 41.
American Civil War Section VI: Short Editorial Notes: Philosophy and
Humanities 42. The Soul of the Knife 43. The Search for Meaning in Surgery
44. Cushings Way 45. The Ethics of Surgical Research 46. American Research
Leadership and Ingenuity 47. Advice from a Committed Scientist 48. Art and
Surgery 49. Poetry and Surgery 50. Solitude in the Surgeons Life 51. The
Invention of the NIH 52. Passion for Surgical Research 53. Intellectual
Honesty