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1,553 entries match Surgery & Anesthesia [E04 / G02.403.810]
1989
#9433
Leonard of Bertapaglia: On nerve injuries and skull fractures. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Jules C. Ladenheim.
1989
#10172
A history of vascular surgery.
Second, updated edition: Maklen, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
1989
#11378
Botulinum toxin: a treatment for facial asymmetry caused by facial nerve paralysis.
First documentation of a cosmetic use for botulinum toxin (Botox). This was one of the early documented applications of a biological medical product.
1989
#12337
Thoracic surgery in Canada: A story of people, places, and events. The evolution of a surgical specialty.
1990
#4483.6
Fractures: a history and iconography of their treatment.
1990
#7135
Laser in situ keratomileusis.
Though several researchers developed the procedures for using an excimer laser to perform in situ karatomileusis (LASIK), "Pallikaris also independently conceived of a hinged flap using a microkeratome he had specific…
1990
#8379
Proceedings of the first conference on visualization in biomedical computing. May 22-25, 1990. Norbert F. Ezquerra, Chair.
1990
#8690
The history of orthopaedics: An account of the study and practice of orthopaedics from the earliest times to the modern era.
1990
#12334
Mysterious heparin: The key to open heart surgery.
1991
#8138
Telepresence: Dextrous procedures in a virtual operating field.
The first teleoperated surgery. Funded by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, the first prototype of a telesurgery robot was developed at Stanford Research International (SRI) (Menlo Park, CA) and called the Green Telepresence…
1991
#8774
History of transplantation: Thirty-five recollections.
1991
#11221
Women under the knife: A history of surgery.
"In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was thei…
1991
#12363
The origins of thoracic anesthesia.
1992
#8382
Medicine meets virtual reality: Discovering applications for 3-D multi-media interactive technology in the health sciences. A symposium, June 4-7, 1992, San Diego, California.
The first conference on the medical applications of virtual reality.
1992
#12216
The evolution of cardiac surgery.
1992
#12329
Clio: The arteries.The development of ideas in arterial surgery.
Reprints several dozen classic papers with commentary.
1993
#6902
Orthopedics: A history and iconography.
1993
#6967
Surgery: An illustrated history.
Text written by Ira Rutkow; captions to illustrations written by Jeremy Norman.
1993
#7592
The case books of John Hunter FRS, edited by Elizabeth Allen, J. L. Turk, and Reginald Murley.
The edition also provides invaluable information regarding Hunter's life and work, and a discussion of the existing Hunterian manuscripts and the record of their survival or loss. As an account of the unique story of …
1993
#9054
La experiencia americana y la terapéutica en los Secretos de Chirurgia (1567), de Pedro Arias de Benavides.
1994
#7647
I Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.
Edited by Wolfe and Menczer. Includes a reproduction of Wells's casebook.
1994
#8140
The NeuroStation--a highly accurate, minimally invasive solution to frameless stereotactic neurosurgery.
The beginning of image-guided surgery. Abstract: "The NeuroStation is an image-guided neurosurgery workstation designed to deliver frameless stereotaxy within an ergonomic, integrated surgical environment. Generally, …
1994
#9226
Medical Department, United States Army Surgery in Vietnam orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic surgery in Vietnam. Edited by William E. Burkhalter.
Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.
1994
#9860
The case books of Dr. John Snow. Edited by Richard H. Ellis.
1994
#12335
Fifty years of cardiac and pulmonary surgery 1942-1993. The beginning of open heart surgery of postoperative intensive care. The first complete left heart catheterization. Mechanical heart valves.
Björk may be most remembered for the Bjork-Shiley artificial heart valve.
1994
#12375
Heart surgery classics. Edited by Larry W. Stephenson and Renato Ruggiero.
Reprints of classics with commentaries by Henry Bahnson, Earl Bakken, Denton Cooley, James Cox, Michael DeBakey, Alden Harken, Dudley Johnson, Adrian Kantrowitz, Willem Kolff, C. Walton Lillehei, and Albert Starr. Sev…
1995
#7211
Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.
Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.
1995
#13192
Die Geschichte der Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie.
1996
#9427
Orthopaedic injuries of the Civil War: An atlas of orthopaedic injuries and treatments during the Civil War.
1996
#11989
The cyberknife: A frameless robotic system for radiosurgery.
1996
#12794
A history of transplantation immunology.
Written by one of the founders of the science.
1997
#6826
A history of neurosurgery in its scientific and professional contexts. Samuel H. Greenblat, Editor. T. Forscht Dagi and Mel H. Epstein, Constributing Editors.
The most comprehensive history of the subject.
1997
#6906
American surgical instruments: The history of their manufacture and a directory of instrument makers to 1900.
1997
#6966
American surgery: An illustrated history.
1997
#7969
Landmarks in cardiac surgery. By Stephen Westaby, with Cecil Bosher.
History and biographical sketches, plus reprints of key papers.
1997
#12759
Inventarium sive Chirurgia Magna. Vol. 1: Text, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh. Vol. 2: Commentary, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Margaret Ogden. 2 vols.
Definitive edition of the medieval Latin text of Guy's Surgery from MS Vat. Palat. Lat. 1317, completed in Montpellier in 1373, only a decade after the text is thought to have been completed. The editors traced the mo…
1998
#8139
Telesurgical laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
First teleoperated (robotic) surgery on a patient. "On March 3, 1997, I successfully performed the first “robotic” laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a 52-year old female patient who suffered from symptomatic cholecystol…
1998
#9682
Creating beauty to cure the soul: Race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery.
1998
#9774
The genesis of surgical anesthesia.
Treats the history of surgical anesthesia from the earliest time through the work of John Snow (1813-1858).
1998
#12336
History of cardiovascular surgery. Edited by L. A. Bockeria.
An international conference on the history of cardiovascular surgery. Dedicated to the memory of V.I. Burakovsky (Moscow, September 24-25, 1996). Attendees and contributors included many Western and Russian pioneers.
1999
#8722
The surgeon's stage: A history of the operating room.
Perhaps the only book on this special subject; numerous illustrations, mostly in color.
2000
#8718
A brief history of endoscopy.
2000
#11659
Cleavage: Technology, controversy and the ironies of the man-made breast.
2001
#6903
Tarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the introduction of surgical anesthesia. A chronicle of the ether controversy
The most comprehensive biography of Morton, and the most comprehensive account of the ether controversy between Morton and Charles Thomas Jackson.
2001
#7959
Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.
The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…
2001
#10895
The pursuit of oblivion: A global history of narcotics.
2001
#13288
Surgeons at war: Medical arrangements for the treatment of the sick and wounded in the British army during the late 18th and 19th centuries.
2002
#7953
Semiotic flesh: Information and the human body. Edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell.
Includes "The virtual surgeon: Operating on the data in an age of medialization" by Timothy Lenoir.
2003
#7839
History of the treatment of spinal cord injuries.
A history of the treatment and rehabilitation of spinal cord and cauda equina injuries.
2003
#8907