The World of Surgery, 1945-1985
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The World of Surgery, 1945-1985

Memoirs of One Participant

  1. 386 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The World of Surgery, 1945-1985

Memoirs of One Participant

About this book

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. PART I. Alabama 1918-1938
  4. CHAPTER 1. Growing Up in Alabama
  5. CHAPTER 2. College at the University of Alabama
  6. PART II. Philadelphia 1938-1951
  7. CHAPTER 3. Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania
  8. CHAPTER 4. Internship at University of Pennsylvania Hospital
  9. CHAPTER 5 Medical Resident at Penn
  10. CHAPTER 6. With the U.S. Army in England, France, and Germany (From a Medical Officers Journal)
  11. CHAPTER 7. The 1940s: The Rise of Physiologic Surgery
  12. CHAPTER 8. Isidor Schwaner Ravdin
  13. CHAPTER 9. Resident in General Surgery at Penn
  14. CHAPTER 10. Resident in Thoracic Surgery and Surgical Staff at Penn
  15. CHAPTER 11. The 1950s: Cardiovascular Surgery Comes of Age
  16. PART III. Memphis 1951-1955
  17. CHAPTER 12. The Medical College of the University of Tennessee: Surgery Staff Member and Director of Surgical Research
  18. PART IV. Jackson 1955
  19. CHAPTER 13. A New Medical School Is Established in Jackson
  20. CHAPTER 14. Human Organ Transplantation
  21. CHAPTER 15. The First Lung Transplant in Man
  22. CHAPTER 16. The First Heart Transplant in Man
  23. CHAPTER 17. The Developing Department of Surgery: Further Progress
  24. CHAPTER 18. Called Urgently to Peru
  25. CHAPTER 19. National and International Participation and Awards
  26. CHAPTER 20. The 1970s: The Practice of Surgery Is Changing
  27. CHAPTER 21. The Surgeon Becomes the Patient: My Own Operations
  28. CHAPTER 22. Family
  29. CHAPTER 23. A Look Backward and a Summing Up
  30. Index