Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted (Hardcover)

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• Format: Hardcover   Learn more about the Hardcover format using Tower WIKI.
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
• Number of Pages: 400
• ISBN: 1607146274
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113758461
• Release Date: February 2, 2010
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A major new biography of the doctor who invented modern surgery. Brilliant,

driven, but haunted by demons, William Stewart Halsted took surgery from a

horrific, dangerous practice to what we now know as a lifesaving art.

Halsted was born to wealth and privilege in New York City in the mid-1800s. He

attended the finest schools, but he was a mediocre student. His academic interests

blossomed at medical school and he quickly became a celebrated surgeon.

Experimenting with cocaine as a local anesthetic, he became addicted. He was

hospitalized and treated with morphine to control his craving for cocaine. For the

remaining 40 years of his life he was addicted to both drugs.

Halsted resurrected his career at Johns Hopkins, where he became the first chief

of surgery. Among his accomplishments, he introduced the residency training

system, the use of sterile gloves, the first successful hernia repair, radical mastectomy,

fine silk sutures, and anatomically correct surgical technique. Halsted is

without doubt the father of modern surgery, and his eccentric behavior, unusual

lifestyle, and counterintuitive productivity in the face of lifelong addiction make

his story unusually compelling.

Gerald Imber, a renowned surgeon himself, evokes Halsted's extraordinary life

and achievements and places them squarely in the historical and social context of

the late 19th century. The result is an illuminating biography of a complex and

troubled man, whose genius we continue to benefit from today.

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