Harvey Cushing : a life in surgery /
Bliss, Michael.
Harvey Cushing : a life in surgery / Michael Bliss. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xii, 591 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) was the founder of brain surgery, an enormous surgical advance. Working at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the early years of the twentieth century, Cushing developed the techniques that enabled surgeons to open the skull, expose the brain, and attack tumors, with a high probability of helping rather than harming patients. Cushing became world famous as the first neurosurgeon, and was one of the first American medical leaders to attract visitors and students from abroad. Moving to Harvard and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Cushing in the 1920s made the apparently miraculous in surgery an every-day reality, as he and his team compiled an astonishing record of treating more than two thousand tumors. Cushing's techniques also enabled him to become the world's leading expert in the pituitary gland, and thus one of the pioneers in endocrinology, who has given his name to "Cushing's syndrome" and "Cushing's disease."; In his spare time Cushing wrote elegant medical essays, won a Pulitzer Prize for his massive biography of William Osler, and amassed a great collection of rare medical books, which are now the basis of the Medical Historical Library at his alma mater, Yale. "Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery" is the first biography of Cushing to be published in fifty years. Drawing on new collections of intimate personal and family papers, diaries and patient records, Michael Bliss re-creates both Cushing's professional and, for the first time, his personal life in remarkable detail.
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2010.
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1429403446 (electronic bk.) 9781429403443 (electronic bk.) 1280534532 9781280534539 9780195346954 0195346955 9786610534531 6610534535 (Cloth) (alk. paper)
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Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.
Neurosurgeons--United States--Biography.
Nervous system--Surgery.
Neurosurgery--United States--Biography.
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgical Procedures
Neurochirurgiens--États-Unis--Biographies.
Neurochirurgie.
MEDICAL--Surgery--General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Medical.
Neurosurgeons.
Neurochirurgie.
United States
United States.
Biography
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
RD592.9.C87 / B55 2005eb
617/.092 B
WZ 100 / C984BL 2005
Harvey Cushing : a life in surgery / Michael Bliss. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xii, 591 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) was the founder of brain surgery, an enormous surgical advance. Working at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the early years of the twentieth century, Cushing developed the techniques that enabled surgeons to open the skull, expose the brain, and attack tumors, with a high probability of helping rather than harming patients. Cushing became world famous as the first neurosurgeon, and was one of the first American medical leaders to attract visitors and students from abroad. Moving to Harvard and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Cushing in the 1920s made the apparently miraculous in surgery an every-day reality, as he and his team compiled an astonishing record of treating more than two thousand tumors. Cushing's techniques also enabled him to become the world's leading expert in the pituitary gland, and thus one of the pioneers in endocrinology, who has given his name to "Cushing's syndrome" and "Cushing's disease."; In his spare time Cushing wrote elegant medical essays, won a Pulitzer Prize for his massive biography of William Osler, and amassed a great collection of rare medical books, which are now the basis of the Medical Historical Library at his alma mater, Yale. "Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery" is the first biography of Cushing to be published in fifty years. Drawing on new collections of intimate personal and family papers, diaries and patient records, Michael Bliss re-creates both Cushing's professional and, for the first time, his personal life in remarkable detail.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
1429403446 (electronic bk.) 9781429403443 (electronic bk.) 1280534532 9781280534539 9780195346954 0195346955 9786610534531 6610534535 (Cloth) (alk. paper)
053453 MIL CRKN/MyiLibrary CostDepend FormOnline AccessRestricted GovNo
2005048765
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.
Neurosurgeons--United States--Biography.
Nervous system--Surgery.
Neurosurgery--United States--Biography.
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgical Procedures
Neurochirurgiens--États-Unis--Biographies.
Neurochirurgie.
MEDICAL--Surgery--General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Medical.
Neurosurgeons.
Neurochirurgie.
United States
United States.
Biography
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
RD592.9.C87 / B55 2005eb
617/.092 B
WZ 100 / C984BL 2005