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Book SynopsisThis is a biography of Bernard G Sarnat, SB, MD, MS, DDS, FACS, a remarkable man who lived for most of the 20th century. Born in 1912 in the USA, he was the son of immigrant parents from Belarus, a former republic of the USSR. He received his MD degree from the University of Chicago, and his MS and DDS degrees from the University of Illinois. Dr Sarnat was a practitioner in the formative years of modern plastic surgery as well as an internationally known biological researcher in the area of craniofacial biology. He was one of the first bone researchers to apply the stain alizarin red S to document the pattern of dental and bone growth, and has published over 220 research papers dealing with bone and teeth biology.Bernard G Sarnat: 20th Century Plastic Surgeon and Biological Scientist is the story of not only a successful physician-scientist, but also a warm and caring individual who is dedicated to his family, as revealed by the many personal details in this biography. Thus, this biography is intended not just for researchers in the biology of bone and teeth, but also for medical and dental students as well the general reader interested in science and medicine.
Table of ContentsBackground; Tsarist Russia; The Pale of Settlement; The Napoleonic Wars; Initiation of Pogroms; Jewish Emigration; The Bolshevik Revolution; Immigration to the United States; A New Century; Roots in Belarus; Emigration to Chicago; Retail Store to Drugstores; Elementary Lessons Growing Up in Chicago; Boy Scouts and High School; Undergraduate School Years (1929-1933); On to Medical School and Beyond (1933-1937); University of Illinois (1937-1940); Marriage to Rhoda Gerard; Basic Training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (1940-1946); Life in St Louis and Chicago (1943-1955); Practice of Plastic Surgery (1946-1956); Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic Surgery (1946-1956); The Move to California (1955); Personal Life in Beverly Hills; Foreign Travel; A Very Close Brush with Death (1961); Private Practice in Beverly Hills (1956-1991); Academia and Research; A Day in the Life of a Plastic Surgeon; A Day in the Life of a Biological Scientist; A Career as Plastic Surgeon and Researcher; Chapter Notes; Chronology; Conferred Honors.
