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6 entries match Surgery & Anesthesia [E04 / G02.403.810] · Social & Political History [K01.850]

1998 CE

#9682

Creating beauty to cure the soul: Race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery.

2008 CE

#10362

Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.

1980 CE

#6596.4

Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.

A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.

1775 CE

#2155

Plain, concise, practical remarks, on the treatment of wounds and fractures; to which is added an appendix, on camp and military hospitals; principally designed for the use of young military surgeons in North America.

The first surgical work written by an American and printed in North America. Jones’s work was the accepted guide to surgical practice during the American Revolutionary War.

1989 CE

#7763

Socioeconomics of surgery.

Probably the first book-form study of these issues.

1974 CE

#12343

The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.

Includes chapters on the heart transplantation moratorium and the artificial heart.