

Pre-Owned Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery (Paperback) 0195329619 9780195329612
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- Biographical Focus: This biography details the life of Harvey Cushing, a pivotal figure in American medicine and brain surgery, drawing on personal papers, diaries, and patient records.
- Authoritative Account: Written by Michael Bliss, this is the first biography of Cushing in fifty years, offering a comprehensive look at his professional and personal journey.
- Surgical Innovations: The book highlights Cushing's development of groundbreaking surgical techniques in the early 20th century, significantly improving brain tumor treatment success rates.
- Character Portrayal: It presents an engaging portrait of Cushing, emphasizing his ambition, relentless energy, work ethic, and occasional ruthlessness and egotism.
- Historical Context: The narrative also traces the evolution of American surgery through Cushing's pioneering contributions and his team's record of over two thousand tumor treatments.
- Book Specifications: This pre-owned paperback edition, titled "Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery," has ISBN10: 0195329619 and EAN: 9780195329612.
- Pre-Owned Condition: The copy may contain limited notes, highlighting, 'From the library of' labels, or previous owner inscriptions, and accessories like CDs or codes might be absent.
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- Book formatPaperback
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreBiography & Memoirs
- Pub date2007-09-01
- Pages608
- Reading levelGrade 2
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Drawing on new collections of intimate personal and family papers, diaries and patient records, Michael Bliss captures Cushing's professional and his personal life in remarkable detail. Bliss paints an engaging portrait of a man of ambition, boundless, driving energy, a fanatical work ethic, a penchant for self-promotion and ruthlessness, more than a touch of egotism and meanness, and an enormous appetite for life. Equally important, Bliss traces the rise of American surgery as seen through the eyes of one of its pioneers. The book describes how Cushing, working in the early years of the 20th century, developed remarkable new techniques that let surgeons open the skull, expose the brain, and attack tumors--all with a much higher rate of success than previously known. Indeed, Cushing made the miraculous in surgery an everyday event, as he and his team compiled an astonishing record of treating more than two thousand tumors.
This is the definite Cushing biography, an epic narrative of high surgical adventure, capturing the highs and lows of an extraordinary life.
- Title: Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
- Book Format: Paperback
- ISBN10: 0195329619
- EAN: 9780195329612
- Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical
- Author: Bliss, Michael
- Pre-Owned Condition- Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.
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