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1,553 entries match Surgery & Anesthesia [E04 / G02.403.810]

2003

#10143

Transplant: From myth to reality.

2003

#12241

Transplant: From myth to reality.

"... organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation resear…

2003

#14236

Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory. Edited by Robert Arnott, Stanley Finger, and C.U.M Smith.

2004

#7109

The book of skin.

2004

#7958

Robotic surgery: A current perspective.

A review of the history, development and then-current applications of robotics in surgery. The paper is freely available from PubMedCentral at this link.

2004

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Primer of robotic & telerobotic surgery. Edited by Garth H. Ballantyne, Jacques Marescaux, and Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti.

2005

#8454

Medicine in the crusades: Warfare, wounds and the medieval surgeon.

The first book published on any aspect of medicine in the crusades. "Focusing on injuries and their surgical treatment, Piers D. Mitchell considers medical practitioners, hospitals on battlefields and in towns, tortur…

2005

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Renal and rectal diseases texts. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Book 7).

Previous volumes of Franz Köcher’s series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature provided copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages. This volume edits all of…

2005

#12315

Who's who in orthopedics.

A biographical encyclopedia of contributors to the history of orthopedics.

2005

#12559

Historia de la anestesia en España. 1847-1940.

2006

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The evolution of surgical instruments: An illustrated history from ancient times to the twentieth century.

2006

#7951

Robotics in surgery: History, Current and future applications. Edited by Russel A. Faust.

2006

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A perfectly striking departure: Surgeons and surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1912—1980.

2006

#12345

Classic papers in coronary angioplasty. Edited by Clive Handler and Michael Cleman.

2007

#7622

A history of limb amputation.

2007

#7646

Charles Thomas Jackson: “The head behind the hands.” Applying science to implement discovery and invention in early nineteenth century America

The first biography of Jackson, the physician and geologist who discoverered of the anesthetic effects of ether, and also played an important role in the discovery of the American electro-magnetic telegraph. Forms a s…

2007

#7963

"Operation Anubis": A world first in no scar surgery. Press release April 26th 2007.

The operation, which took place on April 2, 2007 at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, in which Marescaux and team removed the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) of a patient through the vagina using a flexible endosco…

2007

#9425

The legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of patient care. Edited by Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer.

"... features 800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurolog…

2007

#11030

Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery.

A less idolatrous biography of Cushing than Fulton's work of 1946.

2007

#11085

A history of plastic surgery.

2008

#7623

The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery.

2008

#8908

From skulls to brains: 2500 years of neurosurgical progress.

An annotated exhibition catalogue of rare books on the history of neurological surgery from Eugene Flamm's library.

2008

#10134

A history of microsurgery.

2008

#10362

Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.

2008

#13515

Cultural encyclopedia of the body. Edited by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. 2 vols.

2008

#14011

A history of neuro-oncology.

2010

#8756

The origins of organ transplantation: Surgery and laboratory science 1880-1930.

2011

#8906

Printing and the brain of man.

Annotated catalogue of an exhibition of rare books in the history of neuroanatomy and neurosurgery from Eugene Flamm's library, including many great classics.

2011

#10142

Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.

2011

#10702

Consilioque manuque: La chirurgia nei manoscritti della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.

2011

#11809

Stitches in time: Two centuries of surgery in Papua New Guinea.

Covers the period from 1800 to about 2005.

2011

#12240

Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.

2012

#8258

Maimonides On hemorrhoids. A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.

2012

#8402

La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.

2012

#8777

A history of organ transplantation: Ancient legends to modern practice.

2012

#10345

Death, dying, and organ transplantation: Reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life.

2012

#14013

A physics-based virtual simulator for cranial microneurosurgery training.

"Abstract "BACKGROUND: "A virtual reality neurosurgery simulator with haptic feedback may help in the training and assessment of technical skills requiring the use of tactile and visual cues. "OBJECTIVE: "To develop a…

2013

#11366

Reconstructing faces: The art and wartime surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe and Mowlem.

2013

#12391

Landmark papers in anaesthesia. Edited by Nigel Webster and Helen Galley.

2013

#12927

History of orthodontics.

This history covers 19th century and earlier developments but emphasizes 20th century material including "History of dental lasers and their applications in orthodontics," "History of of Invisalign," etc.

2014

#5557

De arte phisicale et de cirurgia

John of Arderne was the first English surgeon of note. The Stockholm manuscript preserved in the National Library of Stockholm is an illustrated vellum roll nearly 18 feet long and 15 inches wide written in England in…

2015

#7855

Caring for the heart: Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization.

The history of cardiology and cardiac surgery from the perspective of the history of the Mayo Clinic. Of special interest for details of the history of cardiac surgery in Minnesota. The book may be most remembered for…

2015

#9429

Bones: Orthopaedic pathologies in Roman Imperial age.

2015

#9957

Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Essays on a wide range of aspects of wounds during the Middle Ages, particularly resulting from war and violence, but also those of Christ, from ca. 1000 CE to the 15th century in the West (England, Ireland, Scotland,…

2015

#10147

Pioneers in plastic surgery.

2016

#11794

The wounded brain healed: The golden age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984.

2017

#11086

Faces from the front: Harold Gillies, the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup and the origins of modern plastic surgery.

2017

#13721

History of social media in surgery.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Logghe, McFadden, Tully, Jones. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link.

2018

#10186

Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.

2018

#10544

The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery. Edited by Thomas Schlich.

24 chapters on the history of a wide variety of aspects of general surgery, and of the history of various surgical specialties, by 24 authorities. The work is divided into three parts: 1. Periods and Topics, 2. Links,…