Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gawande, Atul

Titel

Two Hundred Years of Surgery

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2012-05, Vol.366 (18), p.1716-1723

Ort / Verlag

Waltham, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This review article traces the history and progress of surgery over the past two centuries, during which the profession evolved from rapidly performed, rudimentary, and often unsuccessful procedures to bold reconstruction, intricate microsurgery, transplantation, and more. Surgery is a profession defined by its authority to cure by means of bodily invasion. The brutality and risks of opening a living person's body have long been apparent, the benefits only slowly and haltingly worked out. Nonetheless, over the past two centuries, surgery has become radically more effective, and its violence substantially reduced — changes that have proved central to the development of mankind's abilities to heal the sick. Surgery before the Advent of Anesthesia The first volume of the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, and the Collateral Branches of Science, published in 1812, gives a sense . . .