W. Bruce Fye

Caring for the Heart

Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book describes developments in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, explains how the Mayo Clinic became a world-famous medical center, and reveals how new technologies and procedures promoted medical specialization. It is written for general readers as well as health care professionals, historians, and policy analysts.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1124g
• ISBN-13: 9780199982356
• ISBN-10: 019998235X
• Artikelnr.: 47975953

Autorenporträt

Emeritus Professor of Medicine and History of Medicine Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Rochester, MN

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures and Tables
* Foreword by Rosemary A. Stevens
* Preface (with Acknowledgements)
* Introduction
* Section One: Inventing the Mayo Clinic and Cardiology
* Chapter 1 The Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Mayo Practice
* Chapter 2 The Mayos' Invention of Multispecialty Group Practice
* Chapter 3 The Development of an Academic Medical Center in Rochester
* Chapter 4 Patient Care and Clinical Research in the 1920s
* Chapter 5 The Electrocardiograph and the Birth of Cardiology
* Chapter 6 Challenges and Changes during the Depression
* Section Two: Developments in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart
Disease
* Chapter 7 President Roosevelt's Secret Hypertensive Heart Disease
* Chapter 8 The Reinvention of the American Heart Association, and the
Invention of Cardiac Catheterization
* Chapter 9 Surgeons Begin Trying to Treat Heart Disease
* Chapter 10 Pioneering Open-Heart Surgery at the University of
Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic
* Chapter 11 The Expansion of Open-Heart Surgery and Cardiac
Catheterization
* Chapter 12 Beyond Mid-Century: Two Decades of Growth and Change
* Section Three: Technologies Transform Heart Care and Stimulate
Subspecialization
* Chapter 13 Creating Coronary Care Units and Empowering Nurses
* Chapter 14 Coronary Angiography: The Cleveland Clinic Leads the Way
* Chapter 15 Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Stimulates the Growth of
Angiography
* Chapter 16 Transforming Cardiac Catheters into Treatment Tools
* Chapter 17 Analyzing and Managing Abnormal Heart Rhythms
* Chapter 18 Seeing the Heart: Echocardiography and Other Imaging
Technologies
* Chapter 19 Treating Heart Failure and Preventing Cardiovascular
Disease
* Chapter 20 Challenges and Opportunities around the New Millennium
* Appendix Alphabetical List of the Subjects of Oral Histories
* Notes
* Index