Vignettes on Surgery, History and Humanities

Vignettes on Surgery, History and Humanities

Author: Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2005-06-20

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1498713874

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This book introduces writings on the history and philosophy of surgery that previously appeared in the Journal of Investigative Surgery. It attempts to reach students of history in general and those interested in the history and philosophy of surgery in particular.


Reminiscences on Surgery, History and Humanities

Reminiscences on Surgery, History and Humanities

Author: Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2007-09-18

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1498713858

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The importance of medical history in the annals of surgery has been frequently underemphasized. There is so much we can learn from the deeds and examples of our predecessors. There is so much we can admire in their lives and contributions. There is so much we can use to guide our professional development.This book introduces writings on the history


Innovation and Discovery on Surgery, History and Humanities

Innovation and Discovery on Surgery, History and Humanities

Author: Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2009-07-10

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 149871384X

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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 s


Surgical Revolutions: A Historical And Philosophical View

Surgical Revolutions: A Historical And Philosophical View

Author: Luis H Toledo-pereyra

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Published: 2011-07-08

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9813108061

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Many surgical revolutions distinguish the history and evolution of surgery. Some are small, others more dominant, but each revolution improves the art and science of surgery. Surgical revolutionaries are indispensable in the conception and completion of any surgical revolution, initiating scientific and technological advances that propel surgical practice forward. Surgical revolutionaries can come in the guises of Lister (antisepsis), Halsted (surgical residency and safe surgery), Cushing (safe brain surgery), Wangensteen (gastrointestinal physiological surgery), Blalock (relief of cyanotic heart disease), Lillehei (open heart surgery), and many others. With the hindsight of history, we can recognize patterns of progress, evaluate means of advancing new ideas, and solidify details of innovative behavior that could lead to new surgical revolutions.This volume examines the following vital questions in detail: What is a surgical revolution and how do we recognize one? Are surgical revolutionaries different? Is there a way to educate new surgical revolutionaries? Can history provide enduring examples of surgical revolutions? Are there different kinds of surgical revolutions? What characterizes a surgical revolution in the context of science and technology? What surgical revolutions are on the horizon?


Access for Dialysis

Access for Dialysis

Author: Ingemar J.A. Davidson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1498712991

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This publication is intended as a guide to common diagnostic, operative and percutaneous techniques used in creating and maintaining vascular access for hemodialysis. When writing the text, the authors have focused on surgeons in training, fellows, interventional radiologists and clinically active nephrologists. Dialysis nurses and other clinicians


Practical Plastic Surgery

Practical Plastic Surgery

Author: Zol B. Kryger

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2007-08-13

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 1498713289

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The attraction of plastic surgery is its tremendous scope, and the multitude of approaches for every clinical situation. Yet it is precisely these aspects of plastic surgery that make its study and teaching especially challenging. Although there exist several excellent atlases and texts on this topic, there are few references that are compact, affo


Substance Abuse in Adolescents and Young Adults

Substance Abuse in Adolescents and Young Adults

Author: Donald E. Greydanus

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-10-14

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 3110311380

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The abuse of drugs and chemicals has become a problematic public health dilemma for the world's population and one that must be dealt with by parents, societies, clinicians, researchers, and even countries in the world. This book discusses the complex neurobiology that underlies drug addiction and reveals how these illicit chemicals disrupt central nervous system neurotransmission involving such neurotransmitters as serotonin, dopamine, and others. This manual reviews current understanding in drug interactions with neurotransmitter systems, neuroimmune signaling, current research on reward circuitry, and current medications used to treat drug addiction. It also discusses related topics such as drug addiction in females, co-morbid conditions, drug addiction in minority populations, prenatal drug exposure and others. The book covers new drugs of the 21st century and discusses such controversial topics as legalization of drug use. It also provides internet resources, treatment facilities by state, and parent support organizations. The importance of prevention of drug abuse is a key theme of the book.


JAK-STAT Pathway in Disease

JAK-STAT Pathway in Disease

Author: Richard H. Bell, Jr.

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2005-11-08

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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Performing a surgical operation must be one of the most complex motor tasks undertaken by humans. To the student rotating on a third-year clerkship, or to the resident beginning a surgical career, the complexity can no doubt be daunting. It is the goal of this handbook to try to bring some degree of order to the complexity, focusing on many of the common operations in general, plastic, thoracic, and vascular surgery, and in organ transplantation. We have done so by dividing each procedure into specific and well-defined steps.


The Open Heart Club

The Open Heart Club

Author: Gabriel Brownstein

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1610399471

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This absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journey, and a profound reflection on mortality. Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, and since then has ridden wave after wave of medical innovation, a series of interventions that have kept his heart beating. The Open Heart Club is both a memoir of a life on the edge of medicine's reach and a history of the remarkable people who have made such a life possible. It begins with the visionary anatomists of the seventeenth century, tells the stories of the doctors (all women) who invented pediatric cardiology, and includes the lives of patients and physicians struggling to understand the complexities of the human heart. The Open Heart Club is a riveting work of compassionate storytelling, a journey into the dark hinterlands between sickness and health lit by bright moments of humor and inspiration.