TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tilney,Nicholas L.
TI  - Invasion of the Body: Revolutions in Surgery
SN  - 9780674063273
AV  - RD19 
U1  - 617 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Surgery-History
KW  - Surgery-History-20th century
KW  - Surgery-History-21st century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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