Ira Rutkow

"From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery's development -- spanning the Stone Age to the present day -- blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling. There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-millions of major surgical procedures are performed annually...

An entertaining and intelligent history of the development of medicine in America by an award-winning physician.