Markel, Howard.
Summary: The astonishing account of the decades-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted. The author discusses the physical and emotional damage caused by the constant use of the then-heralded wonder drug, and of how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it--or because of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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Summary: Recounts the life of the Civil War surgeon and how he made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2003
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Summary: "In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz takes readers behind the scenes of perhaps the greatest medical and technological quest of our time, as she follows pioneering heart surgeon O.H. "Bud" Frazier and his partner, Dr. Billy Cohn, in Frazier's lifelong effort to develop, perfect, and successfully implant an artificial heart in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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Summary: Traces the author's journey from his employment as a construction worker to his entry into medical school, an effort that was marked by such experiences as a co-worker's life-changing comment, his first delivery of a baby, and his first patient losses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac Island State Park Comission 1975
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac Island State Park Commission 2006