Harvey Cushing : a life in surgery /

Main Author: Bliss, Michael.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Opening: the surgeon and the general
  • Western Reserve: the Cushings of Cleveland
  • Making a Yale man
  • Making a Harvard doctor
  • Making an American surgeon
  • A window on the brain
  • Opening the closed box: the birth of neurosurgery
  • The bottom of the box: interragating the pituitary
  • Adieu the simple life
  • Adieu America: Cushing goes to war
  • An American surgeon at Passchendaele
  • Fathers and sons
  • Johnson and Boswells: chief and harem
  • Sprinting to the tape
  • Regius professor at ale
  • Closing: inheritance and memory.