Surgery

"Could I be sued?" The exploding number of malpractice lawsuits in recent years has brought this question to the mind of every clinician---the cons...

Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid su...

Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story that any one of us is in the midst of creating. When the author's fifteen-year-...

This book--intended to dispel the mystique and folklore surrounding arthritis--is the first to explain clearly the scientific aspects of arthritis ...

A case-focused Otolaryngology primer for trainees and practicing clinicians alike As disorders of the head and neck continue to become more prevale...

In the early 1990s, sympathetic juries awarded huge damages to women claiming injury from silicone breast implants, leading to a $4.25 billion clas...

A pioneer in organ transplantation discusses the amazing advances in the field One of the most spectacular medical advances of the twentieth centur...

Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck was immediately hailed as indispensable when it was first published in 2001. In demand ever since, this class...

In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic ...

Professor Huizing's brilliant text with Dr. John de Groot's magnificent surgical drawings on functional reconstructive nasal surgery is now availab...

Hailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and...

In 2005, surgeons in France removed part of the face from a cadaver and grafted it onto the head of a 38-year-old woman grossly disfigured by a dog...

This book provides a complete history of plastic surgery, a description of the modern techniques and choices available, and an overview of the cont...

With obesity rising at alarming rates in the US, UK, and developed countries around the world - so much that the US Department of Health has offici...

In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic ...

More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves f...

Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever or replaced? In Face/On, Sharrona...

Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever or replaced? In Face/On, Sharrona...

More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves f...

The second edition of Neurosurgery Rounds: Questions and Answers Neurosurgery Rounds: Questions and Answers, Second Edition by Mark Shaya and an im...

The value of MR imaging for the evaluation of musculoskeletal system disorders cannot be over-stated. It is the only imaging modality that enables ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

The possibility of treating patients with organ replacement therapy has created a new frontier in medical care. Hospitals have to deal with such vi...

Richard B. Welbourn, a retired endocrine surgeon who has written two books on the subject, has compiled the definitive history of the new and advan...

Each year approximately two million people who are burned require medical treatment. Seventy thousand require hospitalization, and nine thousand di...

This book provides the medical student, the surgeon in training, and the cardiologist with the theoretical foundations and some practical aspects o...

Critical care medicine comprises the observation, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients with overt or potential failure of vital fun...

As a major transplantation center, the University of Pittsburgh has conducted more than 300 liver transplants. Because the problems faced by an ins...

On its initial publication, Forgive and Remember emerged as the definitive study of the training and lives of young surgeons. Now with an extensive...

Discover the best-kept beauty secrets from three generations of editors and experts at Vogue Paris . . .'French beauty secrets that'll give you som...

A complete, how-to-do-it guide to planning, programming, implementing, and trouble-shooting today�s pacemakers and other implantable cardiac device...