Title Invasion of the body : revolutions in surgery / Nicholas L. Tilney.

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Description	1 online resource (358 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-343) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- 1. Three operations -- 2. Teaching hospital -- 3. Evolution of a profession -- 4. Steps forward and steps backward -- 5. War and peace -- 6. Promise of surgical research -- 7. Operations on the heart -- 8. Mechanical heart -- 9. Transfer of organs -- 10. Making a surgeon, then and now -- 11. Shifting foundations -- 12. Unsolved challenges.
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Subject	Surgery -- History.
	Surgery.
	History.
	Surgery -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Surgery -- History -- 21st century.
Chronological Term	21st century
Subject	General Surgery -- history.
	History, 20th Century.
	History, 21st Century.
Chronological Term	1900-2099
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Tilney, Nicholas L. Invasion of the body. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011 9780674062283 (DLC) 2011013287 (OCoLC)709670329
ISBN	9780674063273 (electronic book)
	0674063279 (electronic book)
	9780674062283
	0674062280