TY - GEN T1 - Harvey Cushing : a life in surgery A1 - Bliss, Michael LA - English PP - New York PB - Oxford University Press YR - 2005 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm71792846 AB - Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) was the founder of brain surgery, an enormous surgical advance. Working at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the early years of the twentieth century, Cushing developed the techniques that enabled surgeons to open the skull, expose the brain, and attack tumors, with a high probability of helping rather than harming patients. Cushing became world famous as the first neurosurgeon, and was one of the first American medical leaders to attract visitors and students from abroad. 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. Cushing's techniques also enabled him to become the world's leading expert in the pituitary gland, and thus one of the pioneers in endocrinology, who has given his name to "Cushing's syndrome" and "Cushing's disease."; In his spare time Cushing wrote elegant medical essays, won a Pulitzer Prize for his massive biography of William Osler, and amassed a great collection of rare medical books, which are now the basis of the Medical Historical Library at his alma mater, Yale. "Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery" is the first biography of Cushing to be published in fifty years. Drawing on new collections of intimate personal and family papers, diaries and patient records, Michael Bliss re-creates both Cushing's professional and, for the first time, his personal life in remarkable detail. OP - 591 CN - RD592.9.C87 B55 2005eb SN - 1429403446 SN - 9781429403443 SN - 1280534532 SN - 9781280534539 SN - 9780195346954 SN - 0195346955 SN - 9786610534531 SN - 6610534535 SN - 0195169891 SN - 9780195169898 KW - Cushing, Harvey, : 1869-1939. KW - Cushing, Harvey, : 1869-1939 KW - Neurosurgeons : United States : Biography. KW - Nervous system : Surgery. KW - Neurosurgery : United States : Biography. KW - Neurosurgery KW - United States KW - Neurosurgical Procedures KW - Neurochirurgiens : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Neurochirurgie. KW - MEDICAL : Surgery : General. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Medical. KW - Nervous system : Surgery KW - Neurosurgeons KW - Neurosurgeons : United States : Biography KW - Biography KW - collective biographies. KW - Biographies KW - Biographies. KW - Electronic books. ER -