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Heart and Scalpel New edition
Robert Richardson
Heart and Scalpel New edition
Robert Richardson
A very readable description of how the surgeon has battled against entrenched attitudes and beliefs to achieve what is now almost a routine operation. There were exciting years - for instance when cooling first allowed the surgeon to operate within a motionless heart and of course the lead up to transplants and bypasses.
320 pages, facsimiles, portraits
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | July 17, 2001 |
ISBN13 | 9781899163700 |
Publishers | Quiller Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 320 |
Dimensions | 150 × 230 × 32 mm · 753 g |
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