Innovation and Discovery on Surgery, History, and Humanities

TITLE PAGE......Page 2
Copyright ©2009 Landes Bioscience......Page 3
DEDICATION......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 6
ABOUT THE EDITOR... Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 14
SECTION I. Innovation and Discovery......Page 16
CHAPTER 1. Innovation......Page 18
CHAPTER 2. Elements of Discovery......Page 23
CHAPTER 3. Cushing as an Innovator......Page 28
CHAPTER 4. Discovery According to Blalock......Page 34
CHAPTER 5. Innovation According to C. Walton Lillehei......Page 39
CHAPTER 6. Discovery According to Huggins......Page 49
CHAPTER 7. Lessons from Thomas Alva Edison—The Greatest American Inventor—To Surgical Investigators......Page 52
SECTION II. Art, Literature and Cinematography......Page 58
CHAPTER 8. The Four Doctors......Page 60
CHAPTER 9. Diego Rivera and His Extraordinary Art of Medicine and Surgery......Page 65
CHAPTER 10. In the Cemetery of Forgotten Books......Page 74
CHAPTER 11. Medicine, Gabriel García Márquez and Love in the Time of Cholera......Page 79
CHAPTER 12. From Hell......Page 84
CHAPTER 13. Something the Lord Made......Page 90
SECTION III. Biography, History and Criticism......Page 96
CHAPTER 14. William and Charles Mayo: Their Influence on American Medicine......Page 98
CHAPTER 15. The History of Surgery According to Owen Wangensteen......Page 107
CHAPTER 16. Richard Selzer: Premier American Surgeon-Writer......Page 114
CHAPTER 17. Lessons from the History of Medicine......Page 121
SECTION IV Philosophy of Surgery......Page 128
CHAPTER 18. The Social Transformation of American Surgery......Page 130
SECTION V. Virtues of Man......Page 138
CHAPTER 19. Humility......Page 140
CHAPTER 20. Embracing Greatness......Page 143
CHAPTER 21. Good Men Live on and Never Fade Away......Page 148
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR FIGURES......Page 154
Additional Books by Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra and Published by Landes Bioscience......Page 155
BACK COVER......Page 156