Book description
Derived from Harvey Cushing's remarkable personal collection in the
Brain Tumor Registry,
The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of Patient Care
presents a stunning historical account of Cushing's surgical cases and
research from 1905 to 1930. This beautifully illustrated book features
800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor
specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University
Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurological and
neuropathological disease and reveal the techniques employed by the
founder of modern neurosurgery. The editors have carefully integrated
these high-quality photographs and illustrations into a compelling
narrative constructed from patients' hospital records and Cushing's
meticulous notes at preoperative and postoperative stages of management.
Discharge notes, letters from the family of patients, photographs of
patients years after surgery, and death reports further humanize each
clinical case and speak to Cushing's lasting dedication to his patients.
The book provides a glimpse of the extraordinary contribution that both
Cushing and his patients made to the progress of neurological surgery in
the twentieth century. This unique book will be prized by today's
generation of neurological surgeons and neuropathologists. A
co-publication of Thieme and the American Association of Neurological
Surgeons "This is not just any run-of-the-mill medical history
book. It is, peculiarly, a coffee table book...on neurosurgery...it is a
book that can be opened and appreciated, on almost any page, by any
physician. The most notable feature is the high-resolution patient
portraits...This is a book that for years to come will be chanced on by
bored first-year medical students trolling the shelves of medical school
libraries for something to make them feel connected to clinical
medicine. It will provide the needed relief. The patients portrayed
remain, to this day, real and alive."--Journal of the American
Medical Association Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group; Clarian Health
Care System; Methodist, Indiana University and Reily Hospitals;
Indianapolis, IN, USA Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor and Chairman,
Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New
Haven, CT, USA
