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2021.
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"The mesmerizing biography of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart,...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities. Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools-or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle...
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
From his medical experiences in South Africa, Kurdistan, Mozambique, and Eritrea, the author reflects on the nature of human violence, the contradictions of war, and the role of medicine in the modern world.
"When Jonathan Kaplan began his medical studies in Cape Town, the prospect of political change in South Africa seemed remote. A police attack on a student demonstration bloodied his hands for the first time, and Kaplan realized that he was seeing...
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