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Pioneers in Plastic Surgery

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Authors:
  1. David Tolhurst

    1. Department of Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

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  • Provides readers with fascinating insights into the lives of the pioneers

  • Includes descriptions of the novel surgical operations that they conducted

  • Represents a significant contribution to the history of the specialty

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Pre-nineteenth-Century Surgery

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 1-2

  3. Nineteenth-Century Surgery

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 3-3

  4. Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 5-7

  5. Sir William Ferguson (1808–1877)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 9-11

  6. Twentieth-Century Surgery

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 13-14

  7. Robert Abbe (1851–1928)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 15-19

  8. Jacques Joseph (1865–1934)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 21-25

  9. Otto Lanz (1865–1935)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 27-30

  10. Erich Lexer (1867–1937)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 31-33

  11. Hippolyte Morestin (1869–1919)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 35-38

  12. Vilray P. Blair (1811–1955)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 39-44

  13. John Staige Davis (1872–1946)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 45-53

  14. Johannes Fredericus Samuel Esser (1877–1946)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 55-61

  15. Frantisek Burian (1881–1965)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 63-66

  16. Sir Harold Delf Gillies (1882–1960)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 67-79

  17. Thomas Pomfret Kilner (1890–1964)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 81-86

  18. Gustavo Sanvenero-Rosselli (1897–1974)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 87-92

  19. Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe (1900–1960)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 93-98

  20. Rainsford Mowlem (1902–1986)

    • David Tolhurst
    Pages 99-102
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

    David Tolhurst

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pioneers in Plastic Surgery

  • Authors: David Tolhurst

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19539-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19538-4Published: 12 September 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36854-2Published: 29 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19539-1Published: 01 September 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 109

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plastic Surgery, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, History of Medicine

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