BLISS MICHAEL

An authoritative and highly readable biography of one of the greatest physicians in the history of medicine. William Osler (1849-1919) was the high priest of the coming of modern medicine in the English-speaking world. This scholarly recreation of his life, the first to be published in more than seventy years, brings to life not only a man but the...

Harvey Cushing was the leading figure in the creation of modern neurosurgery. This biography traces his medical school education; his hospital-based surgical career; and his career as a battlefield surgeon during World War I. He has an enduring place in the field of medicine and his name has become part of medical lexicography....