Vignettes on surgery, history and humanities
By: [edited by] Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra.
Contributors: Toledo-Pereyra, Luis H.
Series: Vademecum
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Georgetown, Tex., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Surgery -- History.; Surgery -- history.; Surgical Procedures, Operative.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Times of surgery / A. Parmeggiani; title: Medicine in ancient Egypt / Ahmed Shafik; title: Ancient India / Raman C. Mahabir ... [et al.]; title: Ancient Far East / Tarique Qayumi; title: Ancient Greece, Pergamum / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Turkey / Atilla Soren ... [et al.]; title: Ancient Mexico / Patricio Santillan-Doherty; title: Early America / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra and Suzanne E. Toledo Zimmerer; title: Galen (130 A.D.-200 A.D.) / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Avicenna (981 A.D.-1032 A.D.) / A. Karim Qayumi; title: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Ambroise Pare (1510-1590) / Mahnaz Sherozi; title: Andreas Vesalius (1514-1567) / Hellai Sherzoi; title: John Hunter (1728-1793) / Simon Bartley; title: William Shippen, Jr. (1736-1808) / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) / Alexander Horacio Toledo; title: Philip Syng Physick (1768-1837) / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: John Syng Dorsey (1782-1818) / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: William Beaumont (1785-1853) / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Paul Broca (1824-1880) / Scott E. Cowie; title: Joseph Lister (1827-1912) / Jason R. Francoeur; title: Theodor Billroth (1829-1894) / Herman Kwan, Rod McLaren, and Todd Peterson; title: Theodor Kocher (1841-1917) / Robin Kennie; title: Charles McBurney (1845-1913) / Vincent Thien; title: Carl Johann August Langenbuch (1846-1901) / Maurice Blitz; title: William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922) / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Marie Joseph Auguste Carrel (1873-1941) / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875-1951) / Sonja KÜtting and Susanne Greschus; title: Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) / James Brooks ... [et al.]; title: Charles Brenton Huggins (1901-1997) / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Founders of modern surgery / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Pioneering steps in anesthesia / Erik B. Loucks; title: Organ transplantation / Hossein Shayan; title: The origin and future of transplant surgery / Erik B. Loucks; title: The long journey to cardiac transplantation / Janet Fisher and Mark Trump; title: The man and the father of transplantation / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: British colonial America / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: First American medical schools / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Military surgery / Melissa Chen; title: American Civil War / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra and Alexander Horacio Toledo; title: The soul of the knife / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: The search for meaning in surgery / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Cushing's way / Lucretia W. McClure; title: The ethics of surgical research / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: American research leadership and ingenuity / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Advice from a committed scientist / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Art and surgery / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Poetry and surgery / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Solitude in the surgeon's life / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: The invention of the NIH / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Passion for surgical research / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra; title: Intellectual honesty / Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra.