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Invasion of the body [electronic resource] : revolutions in surgery / Nicholas L. Tilney

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Tilney, Nicholas L.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
358 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents
Introduction -- 1. Three operations -- 2. The teaching hospital -- 3. Evolution of a profession -- 4. Steps forward and steps backward -- 5. War and peace -- 6. The promise of surgical research -- 7. Operations on the heart -- 8. The mechanical heart -- 9. The transfer of organs -- 10. Making a surgeon, then and now -- 11. Shifting foundations -- 12. Unsolved challenges.
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ISBN
9780674062283 (alk. paper)
0674062280 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-343) and index.
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