TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bliss,Michael
TI  - Harvey Cushing: a life in surgery 
SN  - 1429403446
AV  - RD592.9.C87 B55 2005eb
U1  - 617/.092B 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Cushing, Harvey,
KW  - Neurosurgeons
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Nervous system
KW  - Surgery
KW  - Neurosurgery
KW  - Neurosurgical Procedures
KW  - Neurochirurgiens
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Neurochirurgie
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Medical
KW  - fast
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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