Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1607148587 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dr. . Dr. An early proponent of prevention and minimally invasive procedures, he has devised many popular anti-aging techniques, and is attending surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital and assistant clinical professor of surgery at Weill-Cornell School of Medicine. Gerald Imber is a well known plastic surgeon and authority on cosmetic surgery, and directs a private clinic in Manhattan. He is also the author of a number of &ldquo
The result was lifelong heroin dependence, despite which he was eventually able to not only function but also continue a brilliant career. To make surgery more efficient for surgeons, safer, and freer of pain for patients, Halsted began to explore various methods of anesthesia, including the then recently discovered drug, cocaine. It is a scholarly reconstruction, complete with historical perspective, of the life of a man who managed to revolutionize surgical practices and, indeed, the entire field of surgery, while battling the enduring and debilitating consequences of self-inflicted medical experimentation. He became addicted. Imber’s academic style and inclusive approach are solid but may not appeal to all tastes. Failure to kick that addiction played havoc with his professional life and ultimately forced him to turn optimistically to heroin, generally thought at the time to be an
Halsted, perhaps the most important surgeon America has ever produced, battled a lifelong cocaine addiction and maintained numerous secret relationships while simultaneously devising revolutionary medical innovations. Yet the story of Halsted’s life, one of seemingly irreconcilable extremes, is in many ways the story of modern medicine.Before Halsted, poorly-trained doctors performed surgery without anesthesia in unsanitary conditions and patients were rarely expected to survive. Now in paperback, the groundbreaking biography of the most influential surgeon in American histo
A heroic historical page-turner Dr. Gerald Imber will change your views of what it means to be a doctor and a patient, to be sick and to be well. While tracing the convoluted evolution of modern surgery, Imber also chronicles the prodigious, twisted career of the greatest surgeon in American history. As he modernized medicine - introducing such life-sparing novelties as anesthesia, scrubsuits, handwashing, sterlized instruments, even while the medical establishment strenuously res. A mysterious man but lucid book K. Huggs If you are interested in the history of medical education, this is a good book to read. It's also fascinating to read how William Halsted accomplished so much, to so much acclaim, all the while addicted to morphine. He's not an easy character to portray because he revealed so little of himself, whether to hide his addiction or his natural reticence, or both.The book also does a good job of showing how Johns Hopkins developed as the top medical schoo. "William Halstead was an extremely influential man in medicine and I am very glad to have read this book and to have learned" according to Stephen Johnson. This was a very interesting read. It was well written and had me always wanting to read on. I found it hard to put it down.William Halstead was an extremely influential man in medicine and I am very glad to have read this book and to have learned more about his life.