1. Lives of Four Twentieth-Century Surgeons
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H. Rocke Robertson
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German ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,General surgery ,History of surgery ,language ,Medicine ,General Medicine ,business ,Experimental surgery ,language.human_language ,Surgery - Abstract
This article discusses four wide-ranging books that illustrate several facets of the history of surgery in the twentieth century, notably the shift of the centre of academic surgery from the German- to the English-speaking world, changes in the training of surgeons, advances in technique, and the opening of new fields.
- Published
- 1993
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