Gifted hands
Subtitle: America's most significant contributions to surgery
By: Seymour I. Schwartz.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781591026839
Subjects: Surgery -- United States -- History; Surgery -- history -- United States; History, Early Modern 1451-1600 -- United States; History, Modern 1601- -- United States; Surgical Procedures, Operative -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pre-Columbian and colonial times; title: The professor and the pioneer; title: The beginning of clinical experimentation : the birth of a specialty; title: Focus on females; title: The death of pain; title: Two prime targets; title: Two oft-forgotten contributions; title: Prodigy and progenitor; title: Victory over vessels; title: Besting the chest; title: From one to another : organ transplantation; title: Smatterings from the specialties; title: Enabling expansion.