Harvey Cushing : a life in surgery / Michael Bliss.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2007.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 591 p., [32] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Opening: The surgeon and the general. 1. Western reserve: the cushings of Cleveland 2. Making a Yale man 3. Making a Harvard doctor 4. making an American surgeon 5. A window on the brain 6. Opening the closed box: the birth of neurosurgery 7. The bottom of the box: interrogating the pituitary 8. Adieu the simple life 9. Adieu America: Cushing goes to war 10. An American surgeon at Passchendaele 11. Father and sons 12. Johnson and Boswell: chief and Harem 13. Sprinting to the tape 14. Regius professor at Yale. Closing: Inheritance and memory. Notes and sources. Acknowledgments. Illustration credits. Index.
