Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
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From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “byturns fascinating and ghastly”(The New York Times Book Review, Editors’Choice) story of surgery’sdevelopment—frm the Stone Age to the present day—blnding meticulous medical research with vivid storytelling.There are not many life events that can be as simultaneously frightening and hopeful as a surgical operation. In America, tens-of-millions of major surgical procedures are performed annually, yet few of us consider the magnitude of these figures because we have such inherent confidence in surgeons. And, despite passionate debates about health care and the media’sendless fascination with surgery, most of us have no