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Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated book on Cushing's pioneering career
Derived from Harvey Cushing's remarkable personal collection in the Brain Tumor Registry, The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of Patient Care presents a stunning historical account of Cushing's surgical cases and research from 1905 to 1930.
This beautifully illustrated book features 800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurological and neuropathological disease and reveal the techniques employed by the founder of modern neurosurgery. The editors have carefully integrated these high-quality photographs and illustrations into a compelling narrative constructed from patients' hospital records and Cushing's meticulous notes at preoperative and postoperative stages of management. Discharge notes, letters from the family of patients, photographs of patients (years after surgery), and death reports further humanize each clinical case and speak to Cushing's lasting dedication to his patients.
The book provides a glimpse of the extraordinary contribution that both Cushing and his patients made to the progress of neurological surgery in the twentieth century. This unique book will be prized by today's generation of neurological surgeons and neuropathologists.
A co-publication of Thieme and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Trade ReviewThis is not just any run-of-the-mill medical history book. It is, peculiarly, a coffee table book...on neurosurgery...it is a book that can be opened and appreciated, on almost any page, by any physician. The most notable feature is the high-resolution patient portraits...This is a book that for years to come will be chanced on by bored first-year medical students trolling the shelves of medical school libraries for something to make them feel connected to clinical medicine. It will provide the needed relief. The patients portrayed remain, to this day, real and alive.--Journal of the American Medical Association
