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Author : William A. Nolen
Release : 1976
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 434/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Surgeon Under the Knife by : William A. Nolen
Download or read book Surgeon Under the Knife written by William A. Nolen. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold van de Laar
Release : 2018-01-11
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 672/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Under the Knife by : Arnold van de Laar
Download or read book Under the Knife written by Arnold van de Laar. This book was released on 2018-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times 'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday 'Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering . . . a book that invites readers to peer up the bottoms of kings, into the souls of rock stars and down the ear canals of astronauts' The Daily Telegraph How did a decision made in the operating theatre spark hundreds of conspiracy theories about JFK? How did a backstage joke prove fatal to world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini? How did Queen Victoria change the course of surgical history? Through dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his experience and expertise to tell an incisive history of the past, present and future of surgery. From the dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, Under the Knife is both a rich cultural history, and a modern anatomy class for us all.
Author : Hugh Pearson
Release : 2000
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Under the Knife by : Hugh Pearson
Download or read book Under the Knife written by Hugh Pearson. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author investigates how his great-uncle and other family members overcame the racist society of rural Georgia.
Author : Asher Hirshberg,
Release : 2004-10-01
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 923/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis TOP KNIFE: The Art & Craft of Trauma Surgery by : Asher Hirshberg,
Download or read book TOP KNIFE: The Art & Craft of Trauma Surgery written by Asher Hirshberg,. This book was released on 2004-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help you take a badly wounded patient to the operating room, organize yourself and your team, do battle with some vicious injuries and come out with the best possible result. It is a practical guide to operative trauma surgery for residents and registrars, for general surgeons with an interest in trauma, and for isolated surgeons operating on wounded patients in military, rural or humanitarian settings. A surgical atlas may show you what to do with your hands but not how to think, plan and improvise. Here you will find practical advice on how to use your head as well as your hands when operating on a massively bleeding trauma patient. The first part of this book presents some general principles of trauma surgery. The second part is about trauma surgery as a contact sport. Here we show you how to deal with specific injuries to the abdomen, chest, neck and peripheral vessels. The single most important lesson we hope you will derive from this book is to always keep it simple because, in trauma surgery, the simple stuff works.
Author : Wendy Moore
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 452/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Knife Man by : Wendy Moore
Download or read book The Knife Man written by Wendy Moore. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th-century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter. When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly feared. From humble origins, John Hunter rose to become the most famous anatomist and surgeon of the eighteenth century. In an age when operations were crude, extremely painful, and often fatal, he rejected medieval traditions to forge a revolution in surgery founded on pioneering scientific experiments. Using the knowledge he gained from countless human dissections, Hunter worked to improve medical care for both the poorest and the best-known figures of the era—including Sir Joshua Reynolds and the young Lord Byron. An insatiable student of all life-forms, Hunter was also an expert naturalist. He kept exotic creatures in his country menagerie and dissected the first animals brought back by Captain Cook from Australia. Ultimately his research led him to expound highly controversial views on the age of the earth, as well as equally heretical beliefs on the origins of life more than sixty years before Darwin published his famous theory. Although a central figure of the Enlightenment, Hunter’s tireless quest for human corpses immersed him deep in the sinister world of body snatching. He paid exorbitant sums for stolen cadavers and even plotted successfully to steal the body of Charles Byrne, famous in his day as the “Irish giant.” In The Knife Man, Wendy Moore unveils John Hunter’s murky and macabre world—a world characterized by public hangings, secret expeditions to dank churchyards, and gruesome human dissections in pungent attic rooms. This is a fascinating portrait of a remarkable pioneer and his determined struggle to haul surgery out of the realms of meaningless superstitious ritual and into the dawn of modern medicine.
