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Oct 1, 2005 · 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.
Aug 24, 2007 · Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery. 1st Edition. by Michael Bliss (Author) 67. See all formats and editions. Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine and without doubt the greatest figure in the history of brain surgery.
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- Michael Bliss
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- Oxford University Press
Sep 10, 2005 · Interweaving Cushing's personal story with graphic accounts of his technical prowess, Bliss skillfully charts not only the life of a man, but also the birth and rise of the most esoteric and exotic fields of surgery and endocrinology (in which Cushing became a pioneer).
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- Michael Bliss
Jan 1, 2005 · 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.
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For me, Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) was and is still a presence, a fascinating, larger-than-life figure. He was: pioneer brain surgeon, father of neurosurgery, an almost accidental pioneer of endocrinology, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of William Osler, consummate clinical researcher and academician, and arguably the most famous American ...
- Thomas G. Cropley
- 2006
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...
No one had heard of the “80-hour week” when Harvey Cushing was a surgical intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1895. He reduced fractures and dislocations, sutured lacerations, took care of gunshot wounds, and assisted at all kinds of surgery.
