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Invasion of the Body : Revolutions in Surgery /
In 1913, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston admitted its first patient, Mary Agnes Turner, who suffered from varicose veins in her legs. The surgical treatment she received, under ether anesthesia, was the most advanced available at the time. At the same hospital fifty years later, Nicholas T...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2011]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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 a Surgeon, Then and Now
- 11. Shifting Foundations
- 12. Unsolved Challenges
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX