Gifted Hands
America's Most Significant Contributions to Surgery
The United States enjoys an established and essentially unchallenged role in the field of surgery. In this sweeping history of American surgical practice, renowned surgeon Seymour I. Schwartz, MD, describes how surgery in this country advanced from the comparatively crude practices of pioneering physicians in the pre-Columbian and colonial eras to its current level of preeminence in scientific surgery today. Of interest to the layperson and professional alike, Dr. Schwartz's engrossing narrative brings to life the personalities and sometimes dramatic conflicts that led to breakthrough contributions. In the nineteenth century, for example, the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59102-683-9
- EAN: 9781591026839
- Produktnummer: 3695079
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 259 S.
Über den Autor
Seymour I Schwartz, MD (Rochester, NY), a world-renowned surgeon, is the author of Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery, which in its seven editions and translations has sold more than 500,000 copies. Dr. Schwartz is equally renowned as a cartographic historian and is the author of many books on historical maps, including Putting America on the Map: The Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States.
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