@article{851133,
      recid = {851133},
      author = {Laar, Arnold van de, and Brown, Andy},
      title = {Under the knife : a history of surgery in 28 remarkable  operations /},
      pages = {357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :},
      note = {Translation of: Onder het mes : de beroemdste patièenten  en operaties uit de geschiedenis van de chirurgie.},
      abstract = {"Surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and  expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery  through 28 famous operations - from Louis XIV to JFK, and  from Einstein to Houdini. From the story of the desperate  man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a  stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe,  Under the Knife offers all kinds of fascinating and  unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the  operating theater. What happens during an operation? How  does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a  bacterium, a cancer cell or a bullet? And, as medical  advances continuously push the boundaries of what medicine  can cure, what are the limits of surgery? From the dark  centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without  anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating  theatres, Under the Knife is both a rich cultural history,  and a modern anatomy class for us all"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/851133},
}