1st Edition
Innovation and Discovery on Surgery, History and Humanities
By Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra
Copyright 2009
154 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
154 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Great advances in a medical or surgical discipline originate from courageous and unabashed, committed professionals who are fearless in exploring new avenues of management or treatment. Great advances in the chosen field are dependent on those who think and practice innovation and discovery. Great advances in selected or wide areas of medicine or surgery are the response of long-term, dedicated... Read more
Preface Section I. Innovation and Discovery 1. Innovation 2. Elements of Discovery3. Cushing as an Innovator4. Discovery According to Blalock5. Innovation According to C. Walton Lillehei 6. Discovery According to Huggins7. Lessons from Thomas Alva Edison —The Greatest American Inventor—To Surgical Investigators Section II. Art, Literature and Cinematography 8. The Four Doctors9. Diego Rivera and His Extraordinary Art of Medicine and Surgery 10. In the Cemetery of Forgotten Books 11. Medicine, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Love in the Time of Cholera 12. From Hell 13. Something the Lord Made Section III. Biography, History and Criticism 14. William and Charles Mayo: Their Influence on American Medicine 15. The History of Surgery According to Owen Wangensteen 16. Richard Selzer: Premier American Surgeon-Writer 17. Lessons from the History of Medicine Section IV. Philosophy of Surgery 18. The Social Transformation of American Surgery Section V. Virtues of Man 19. Humility 20. Embracing Greatness. 21. Good Men Live on and Never Fade Away
Biography
Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra Surgeon, Researcher and Educator. He is the author and editor of 21 books. His books, Vignettes on Surgery, History and Humanities, Origins of the Knife, A History of American Medicine and most recently Reminiscences on Surgery, History and Humanities, have been introduced as the standard textbooks for the course of the History of American Medicine that he has been teaching for 19 years at Western Michigan University.
