Harvey Cushing : a life in surgery /

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Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) was the founder of brain surgery, an enormous surgical advance. Working at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the early years of the twentieth century, Cushing developed the techniques that enabled surgeons to open the skull, expose the brain, and attack tumors, with a high probabi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bliss, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Cushing, Harvey, > 1869-1939.
Cushing, Harvey, > 1869-1939
Neurosurgeons > United States > Biography.
Nervous system > Surgery.
Neurosurgery > United States > Biography.
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgical Procedures
Neurochirurgiens > États-Unis > Biographies.
Neurochirurgie.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
Nervous system > Surgery
Neurosurgeons
United States
Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opening: the surgeon and the general
  • Western Reserve: the Cushings of Cleveland
  • Making a Yale man
  • Making a Harvard doctor
  • Making an American surgeon
  • A window on the brain
  • Opening the closed box: the birth of neurosurgery
  • The bottom of the box: interragating the pituitary
  • Adieu the simple life
  • Adieu America: Cushing goes to war
  • An American surgeon at Passchendaele
  • Fathers and sons
  • Johnson and Boswells: chief and harem
  • Sprinting to the tape
  • Regius professor at ale
  • Closing: inheritance and memory.

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