Opening: The Surgeon and the General ; 1. Western Reserve: The Cushings of Cleveland ; 2. Making a Yale Man ; 3. Making a Harvard Doctor ; 4. Making an American Surgeon ; 5. A Window on the Brain ; 6. Opening the Closed Box: The Birth of Neurosurgery ; 7. The Bottom of the Box: Interrogating the Pituitary ; 8. Adieu the Simple Life ; 9. Adieu America: Cushing Goes to War ; 10. An American Surgeon at Passchendaele ; 11. Fathers and Sons ; 12. Johnson and Boswells: Chief and Harem ; 13. Sprinting to the Tape ; 14. Regius Professor at Yale ; Closing: Inheritance and Memory
Michael Bliss holds the prestigious rank of University Professor at
the University of Toronto. He has written numerous prize-winning
books in medical history, including The Discovery of Insulin and
William Osler: A Life in Medicine. One of Canada's most
distinguished historians, he has received the Order of Canada and
an honorary Fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Canada, and is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada.
"As cleanly efficient as a successful operation.... As this solid,
accessible biography reveals, Cushing may have been the very devil
to live with, but with a scalpel in his hand, he did God's
work."--Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
"An absorbing chronicle of the career of one of the greatest
medical innovators ever produced by the US--or any other
country.... One of the most extraordinary lives any biographer
might wish to study.... It is Bliss's great accomplishment that he
has made accessible not only the science, medicine, and
professional atmosphere of Cushing's career, but also the character
and personality of the man.... What Bliss has given to his subject
is what Cushing himself,
or any of us, would ask of a biographer: understanding."--Sherwin
Nuland, New York Review of Books
"Monumental. Bliss begins before the cradle and ends beyond the
grave, touching both on the material facts of Cushing's remarkable
successes and on his convoluted inner life.... It is difficult to
imagine how any future writer might improve on this masterpiece of
compassion and erudition." --Richard Barnett, Lancet
"Brings back to life an amazingly accomplished man who was the
father of American neurosurgery, a leading authority on the
pituitary gland, a pioneer of endocrinology and a Pulitzer
Prize-winning biographer."--Denver Post
"A fast paced, engaging portrait of one of America's great pioneers
and heroes. Bliss gives important insight into Cushing's
motivations, inspirations, demons, and flaws, thus revealing how he
was motivated to change a field and bravely create a new outlook on
the functioning of the brain as well as a fundamentally new
approach to medicine and research." --Henry Brem, Harvey Cushing
Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Johns
Hopkins
"Bliss...had a voluminous treasure trove of primary documents with
which to work. His readable and thoroughly documented book presents
Cushing as both an icon and a human being whose family and
colleagues suffered from his single-minded devotion to work and
blunt perfectionism. Written almost 60 years after the last major
Cushing biography, this illustrated work calls on new resources and
provides a more contemporary perspective."--Library Journal
"The essence of biography is the elucidation of personality, and
this is accomplished in a superb fashion in Michael Bliss's
splendid modern biography of Harvey Cushing, with each chapter
providing a facet of insight into a complex and fascinating icon of
20th century medicine and surgery." --Edward R. Laws, MD, FACS,
Professor of Neurosurgery and Medicine, University of Virginia
"Bliss has provided us with a definitive biography of the founder
of American neurosurgery. It is a book about glitter and intensity,
about vision and persistence, and about the emergence of America as
a world leader in medicine. Sophisticated, balanced, and thoughtful
it is a story of interest to physicians, surgeons, and lovers of
history." --Peter M. Black, MD, PhD, Franc D. Ingraham Professor of
Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School and
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Another tour-de-force by Michael Bliss. Like Bliss' William Osler:
A Life in Medicine, it will be a classic of medical history."
--Jock Murray, Medical Humanities Program, Dalhousie University
"It is beautifully written and illustrated, a pleasure to read, and
paints Cushing 'warts and all.' A must for anyone with an interest
in the development of our profession and with the life of this
extraordinary man."--British Journal of Hospital Medicine
"Bliss does a superlative job in conveying the strains that
Cushing's surgical ambition and his celebrity status placed on his
marriage."--Susan E. Lederer, American Historical Review
"Bliss does a superlative job in conveying the strains that
Cushing's surgical ambition and his celebrity status placed on his
marriage."--Susan E. Lederer, American Historical Review
"This masterwork of narrative brings to vibrant life one of the
most complex, brilliant, and endlessly fascinating medical
personalities of recent times. In a book that will stand as the
definitive biography of Harvey Cushing, Michael Bliss demonstrates
once again why he is that ideal combination of storyteller and
scrupulous historical researcher craved by general readers and
envied by academics."--Sherwin Nuland
"Monumental. Bliss begins before the cradle and ends beyond the
grave, touching both on the material facts of Cushing's remarkable
successes and on his convoluted inner life.... It is difficult to
imagine how any future writer might improve on this masterpiece of
compassion and erudition." --Richard Barnett, Lancet
"An absorbing chronicle of the career of one of the greatest
medical innovators ever produced by the US--or any other
country.... One of the most extraordinary lives any biographer
might wish to study.... It is Bliss's great accomplishment that he
has made accessible not only the science, medicine, and
professional atmosphere of Cushing's career, but also the character
and personality of the man.... What Bliss has given to his subject
is what Cushing himself,
or any of us, would ask of a biographer: understanding."--Sherwin
Nuland, New York Review of Books
"A fast paced, engaging portrait of one of America's great pioneers
and heroes. Bliss gives important insight into Cushing's
motivations, inspirations, demons, and flaws, thus revealing how he
was motivated to change a field and bravely create a new outlook on
the functioning of the brain as well as a fundamentally new
approach to medicine and research." --Henry Brem, Harvey Cushing
Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Johns
Hopkins
"As cleanly efficient as a successful operation.... As this solid,
accessible biography reveals, Cushing may have been the very devil
to live with, but with a scalpel in his hand, he did God's
work."--Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
"Brings back to life an amazingly accomplished man who was the
father of American neurosurgery, a leading authority on the
pituitary gland, a pioneer of endocrinology and a Pulitzer
Prize-winning biographer."--Denver Post
"Bliss...had a voluminous treasure trove of primary documents with
which to work. His readable and thoroughly documented book presents
Cushing as both an icon and a human being whose family and
colleagues suffered from his single-minded devotion to work and
blunt perfectionism. Written almost 60 years after the last major
Cushing biography, this illustrated work calls on new resources and
provides a more contemporary perspective."--Library Journal
"The essence of biography is the elucidation of personality, and
this is accomplished in a superb fashion in Michael Bliss's
splendid modern biography of Harvey Cushing, with each chapter
providing a facet of insight into a complex and fascinating icon of
20th century medicine and surgery." --Edward R. Laws, MD, FACS,
Professor of Neurosurgery and Medicine, University of Virginia
"Bliss has provided us with a definitive biography of the founder
of American neurosurgery. It is a book about glitter and intensity,
about vision and persistence, and about the emergence of America as
a world leader in medicine. Sophisticated, balanced, and thoughtful
it is a story of interest to physicians, surgeons, and lovers of
history." --Peter M. Black, MD, PhD, Franc D. Ingraham Professor of
Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School and
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Another tour-de-force by Michael Bliss. Like Bliss' William Osler:
A Life in Medicine, it will be a classic of medical history."
--Jock Murray, Medical Humanities Program, Dalhousie University
"It is beautifully written and illustrated, a pleasure to read, and
paints Cushing 'warts and all.' A must for anyone with an interest
in the development of our profession and with the life of this
extraordinary man."--British Journal of Hospital Medicine
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