{"product_id":"harvey-cushing-a-life-in-surgery-9780195169898","title":"Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing  a giant of American medicine and without doubt the greatest figure in the history of brain surgery. Drawing on new collections of intimate personal and family papers  diaries and patient records  Michael Bliss captures Cushings professional and his personal life in remarkable detail. Bliss paints an engaging portrait of a man of ambition  boundless  driving energy  a fanatical work ethic  a penchant for self-promotion and ruthlessness  more than a touch of egotism and meanness  and an enormous appetite for life. Equally important  Bliss traces the rise of American surgery as seen through the eyes of one of its pioneers. The book describes how Cushing  working in the early years of the 20th century  developed remarkable new techniques that let surgeons open the skull  expose the brain  and attack tumors--all with a much higher rate of success than previously known. Indeed  Cushing made the miraculous in surgery an everyday event  as he and his team compiled an astonishing record of treating more than two thousand tumors. This is the definite Cushing biography  an epic narrative of high surgical adventure  capturing the highs and lows of an extraordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280445988917,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195169891","price":99.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195169898.jpg?v=1780636555","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/harvey-cushing-a-life-in-surgery-9780195169898","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}