Bibliograph

The invention of surgery, a history of modern medicine : from the Renaissance to the implant revolution, David Schneider, MD

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The invention of surgery, a history of modern medicine : from the Renaissance to the implant revolution, David Schneider, MD

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The invention of surgery

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1134528925

Responsibility statement

David Schneider, MD

Sub title

a history of modern medicine : from the Renaissance to the implant revolution

Summary

The Invention of Surgery explains this dramatic progress and highlights the personalities of the discipline's most dynamic historical figures. It links together the lives of the pioneering scientists who first understood what causes disease, how organs become infected or cancerous, and how surgery could powerfully intercede in people's lives, and then shows how the rise of surgery intersected with many of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the last century, including the evolution of medical education, the transformation of the hospital from a place of dying to a habitation of healing, the development of antibiotics, and the rise of transistors and polymer science. And as Schneider argues, surgery has not finished transforming; new technologies are constantly reinventing both the practice of surgery and the nature of the objects we are permanently implanting in our bodies. Schneider considers these latest developments, asking "What's next?" and analyzing how our conception of surgery has changed alongside our evolving ideas of medicine, technology, and our bodies.--, Publisher's description

Target audience

adult

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