EAN: 9783319195384

PIONEERS IN PLASTIC SURGERY - DAVID TOLHURST GE...

This book is a collection of short accounts of the lives and works of surgeons who began to use
techniques in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that were to form the basis of
reconstructive and cosmetic surgery and give rise to the specialty of plastic surgery.
Descriptions of the intricate and novel surgical operations undertaken by these pioneers are
included  but the emphasis is above all on stories of widely varying and fascinating characters
from the strange or eccentric  such as Hippolyte Morestin  to the serious or ambitious and a
few  such as the Dutchman Johannes Esser and the legendary Sir Howard Gillies  who were
accomplished in other fields  including business  sport and art. It is related how the two
World Wars played a key role in the development of new techniques and how the endeavors of the
pioneers were sometimes rejected by obstructive or abusive colleagues  impacting on careers and
reputations. Pioneers in Plastic Surgery will appeal to all with an interest in the history of
the discipline and the figures who shaped its birth and growth.

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