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Invasion of the Body : Revolutions in Surgery.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (383 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674063273
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Invasion of the BodyDDC classification:
  • 617
LOC classification:
  • RD19
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Three Operations -- 2. The Teaching Hospital -- 3. Evolution of a Profession -- 4. Steps Forward and Steps Backward -- 5. War and Peace -- 6. The Promise of Surgical Research -- 7. Operations on the Heart -- 8. The Mechanical Heart -- 9. The Transfer of Organs -- 10. Making Surgeon, Then and Now -- 11. Shifting Foundations -- 12. Unsolved Challenges -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: A pioneering organ transplant surgeon narrates in gripping detail the revolutions that have transformed modern surgery, and the turmoil in medical education and health care reform as new capacities to prolong life and restore health run headlong into unsustainable costs. Tilney's stage is the famous Boston teaching hospital, Brigham and Women's.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Three Operations -- 2. The Teaching Hospital -- 3. Evolution of a Profession -- 4. Steps Forward and Steps Backward -- 5. War and Peace -- 6. The Promise of Surgical Research -- 7. Operations on the Heart -- 8. The Mechanical Heart -- 9. The Transfer of Organs -- 10. Making Surgeon, Then and Now -- 11. Shifting Foundations -- 12. Unsolved Challenges -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

A pioneering organ transplant surgeon narrates in gripping detail the revolutions that have transformed modern surgery, and the turmoil in medical education and health care reform as new capacities to prolong life and restore health run headlong into unsustainable costs. Tilney's stage is the famous Boston teaching hospital, Brigham and Women's.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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