The World of Surgery, 1945-1985 : Memoirs of One Participant

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Contents Preface PART I. Alabama 1918-1938 CHAPTER 1. Growing Up in Alabama CHAPTER 2. College at the University of Alabama PART II. Philadelphia 1938-1951 CHAPTER 3. Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania CHAPTER 4. Internship at University of Pennsylvania Hospital CHAPTER 5 Medical Resident at Penn CHAPTER 6. With the U.S. Army in England, France, and Germany (From a Medical Officers Journal) CHAPTER 7. The 1940s: The Rise of Physiologic Surgery CHAPTER 8. Isidor Schwaner Ravdin CHAPTER 9. Resident in General Surgery at Penn CHAPTER 10. Resident in Thoracic Surgery and Surgical Staff at Penn CHAPTER 11. The 1950s: Cardiovascular Surgery Comes of Age PART III. Memphis 1951-1955 CHAPTER 12. The Medical College of the University of Tennessee: Surgery Staff Member and Director of Surgical Research PART IV. Jackson 1955 CHAPTER 13. A New Medical School Is Established in Jackson CHAPTER 14. Human Organ Transplantation CHAPTER 15. The First Lung Transplant in Man CHAPTER 16. The First Heart Transplant in Man CHAPTER 17. The Developing Department of Surgery: Further Progress CHAPTER 18. Called Urgently to Peru CHAPTER 19. National and International Participation and Awards CHAPTER 20. The 1970s: The Practice of Surgery Is Changing CHAPTER 21. The Surgeon Becomes the Patient: My Own Operations CHAPTER 22. Family CHAPTER 23. A Look Backward and a Summing Up Index