Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
by Michael Bliss
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Working at the John Hopkins Hospital during the early years of the 20th century, Harvey Cushing developed techniques which greatly advanced neurosurgical methods. This book looks at the life and career of a man who revolutionised brain surgery.Tags
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a very thorough and interesting examination of Cushing's life. The accusations of racism are disturbing and dealt with in an offhand manner, but the useof original source material gave a portrait of someone who may have been a questionable father and husband and even person, but who was a superb doctor and surgeon
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John William Michael Bliss was born in Leamington, Ontario, Canada on January 18, 1941. He graduated from the University of Toronto. He taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 until 2006. He was a historian of Canadian business and politics as well as medicine. He wrote 14 books during his lifetime including A Canadian Millionaire, The show more Discovery of Insulin, Banting: A Biography, William Osler: A Life in Medicine, and Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery. He was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2016. He died from complications of vasculitis, an inflammatory blood vessel disease, on May 18, 2017 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- People/Characters
- Harvey Cushing; Sir William Osler; William Stewart Halsted; Cushing Sisters; Betsy Roosevelt Whitney; Minnie Astor Fosburgh (show all 7); Babe Paley
- Important places
- Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium; Passchendaele, West Flanders, Belgium; Western Front in World War I; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Important events
- World War I, European Theater
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
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