Author: Ira M. Rutkow
Publisher: Jeremy Norman Co
Keywords: amp, ser, surgery, pamphlet, bibliography, literature, periodical, united, states, vol, history
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 1992-10-01
List price: $245.00
ISBN-10: 093040548X
ISBN-13: 9780930405489

The second volume of the definitive two-volume set provides a survey of the periodical and pamphlet literature in which most early American surgical discoveries were first published. With 116 illustrations, this book describes and analyzes the 1413 original journal articles and pamphlets written by American surgeons before 1900 deemed to have particular historical significance. Both volumes are arranged by surgical specialties so that each chapter represents a chronological history of the literature of anesthesia, colon and rectal surgery, general surgery, gynecology, neurolo

Author: Ira Rutkow
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: america, medicine, history, cure, seeking
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-04-13
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 1416538283
ISBN-13: 9781416538288

A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow’s Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works, either for the lay reader or the physician, that convey the extraordinary story of medicine in the United States. Yet for more than three centuries, the flowering of medicine—its triumphal progress from ignorance to science—has proven crucial to Americans’ under-standing of their country and themselves. Seek

Authors:Ira Rutkow, Arthur M. Schlesinger,
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: american, presidents, times, president, series, james, garfield
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 080506950X
ISBN-13: 9780805069501

The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politics--only to be felled by an assassin’s bullet and to die at the hands of his doctorsJames A. Garfield was one of the Republican Party’s leading lights in the years following the Civil War. Born in a log cabin, he rose to become a college president, Union Army general, and congressman--all by the age of thirty-two. Embodying the strive-and-succeed spirit that captured the imagination of Americans in his time, he was elected president in 1880. It is no surprise that one of his biographers was Horatio Alger.Garfiel