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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness |
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From Publishers Weekly
Set against the backdrop of changing attitudes toward mental illness in the 20th century, El-Hai's scholarly biography of Dr. Walter Freeman is a moving portrait of failed greatness. Born to a distinguished family of physicians, he rose to become one of the most celebrated doctors of his generation. Best known as the doctor responsible for the widespread adoption of lobotomy in America after WWII, he also made signal contributions to the science of medicine th... >> |
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Atlas of Peripheral Nerve Surgery |
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Book Info
Louisiana State Univ., New Orleans. Revised reprint showing, by a series of line drawings and cadaver dissection color photographs, the surgical approaches commonly used by the authors for various types of nerve lesions. Does not include a bibliography. All illustrations are of high quality. Original first edition: c2001. DNLM: Peripheral Nerves--surgery--atlases. ... >> |
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Atlas of Neonatal Electroencephalography |
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From Book News, Inc.
Neurophysiologists at The Methodist Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston present tables and samples of EEG recordings on infants in order to offer clinicians, trainees, and technicians in neurology and neurophysiology a comprehensive view of the clinical practice. They include chapters on the approach to visual analysis, artifacts of non-cerebral origin, age- dependent normal findings, patterns of uncertain diagnostic significance, abnormal finding... >> |
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Neurosurgery
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