Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery

Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the...
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SKU: 9780826515940
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Author: William S. Stoney
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery by Stoney, William S.

Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery

$377.30

Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery

$377.30
Author: William S. Stoney
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the opposite. Cardiac operations were reserved for desperately ill patients. The author documents this dramatic transition with profiles of 38 surgeons who were active between 1940 and 1985.

The profiles are edited transcripts of interviews videotaped between 1996 and 2004. They tell of the development of new techniques such as the "blue baby operation," the first heart-lung machine, the first artificial heart valve, and the first coronary bypass operation. They also tell the unusual life stories of the surgeons and allude to professional and institutional rivalries. A particularly valuable part of the book is the author's brief history of cardiac surgery, designed to orient the reader for reading the profiles that follow.

Author: William S. Stoney
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 07/28/2008
Pages: 648
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.07lbs
Size: 10.58h x 8.05w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9780826515940


Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2008 pg. 109

About the Author
Stoney, William S.: - William S. Stoney, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

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