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"Gerald Imber's new biography is the first retelling of Halsted's story in many decades and a particularly expert and thought-provoking narrative makes the intense strangeness of Halsted's subsequent career a gripping story."--Abigail Zuger, "New York Times "Science section ..".Dr. Gerald Imber's unpredictable and unflappable biography, an intrigue-filled life story that's also a sweeping pop medical history, depicts an individual who was two different kinds of good - make that, great - doctor." --Baltimore Sun "With this engaging (if spectacularly subtitled) biography, Imber brings into focus the amazing strides medicine has made over 150 years." --Publishers Weekly "Imber provides a few other colorful details about Halsted: He named his dachshunds "Nip" and "Tuck" and was such an indifferent college student that "there is no record of Halsted ever having borrowed a book from the Yale library." He did crack a book during his senior year: Gray's "Anatomy," which inspired him to pursue medicine." --Washington Post "A gripping mixture of medical history and detailed biographical analysis.".." "--Huffington Post "He provides a vivid sense of many "larger-than-life personalities," including those of William Welch, William Osler, Howard Kelly, Harvey Cushing, and Walter Dandy. His powers of description are compelling, and his carefully chosen words seem to let the monumental events speak for themselves. The book is a must-read for residents. The residency of the 21st century is evolving from that of the 20th, but it will be a long time before Halsted's imprint is no longer palpable." --Anesthesiology "Gerald Imber has captured in one grisly sweep the barbarism of both early surgery and the manure-trodden streets it grew from. Like Doctorow's RAGTIME, it's evocative in broad strokes....Not just for history buffs, Imber gives any reader a character for the ages. Riveting." --Mary Karr, author of "The Liars' Club"Gerald Imber's new biography is the first retelling of Halsted's story in many decades and a particularly expert and thought-provoking narrative makes the intense strangeness of Halsted's subsequent career a gripping story."--Abigail Zuger, "New York Times "Science section ..".Dr. Gerald Imber's unpredictable and unflappable biography, an intrigue-filled life story that's also a sweeping pop medical history, depicts an individual who was two different kinds of good - make that, great - doctor." --Baltimore Sun "With this engaging (if spectacularly subtitled) biography, Imber brings into focus the amazing strides medicine has made over 150 years." --Publishers Weekly "Imber provides a few other colorful details about Halsted: He named his dachshunds "Nip" and "Tuck" and was such an indifferent college student that "there is no record of Halsted ever having borrowed a book from the Yale library." He did crack a book during his senior year: Gray's "Anatomy," which inspired him to pursue medicine." --Washington Post "A gripping mixture of medical history and detailed biographical analysis.".." "--Huffington Post "He provides a vivid sense of many "larger-than-life personalities," including those of William Welch, William Osler, Howard Kelly, Harvey Cushing, and Walter Dandy. His powers of description are compelling, and his carefully chosen words seem to let the monumental events speak for themselves. The book is a must-read for residents. The residency of the 21st century is evolving from that of the 20th, but it will be a long time before Halsted's imprint is no longer palpable." --Anesthesiology "Gerald Imber has captured in one grisly sweep the barbarism of both early surgery and the manure-trodden streets it grew from. Like Doctorow's RAGTIME, it's evocative in broad strokes....Not just for history buffs, Imber gives any reader a character for the ages. Riveting." --Mary Karr, author of "The Liars' Club "Gerald Imber s new biography is the first retelling of Halsted s story in many decades and a particularly expert and thought-provoking narrative makes the intense strangeness of Halsted s subsequent career a gripping story. Abigail Zuger, "New York Times "Science section Dr. Gerald Imber's unpredictable and unflappable biography, an intrigue-filled life story that's also a sweeping pop medical history, depicts an individual who was two different kinds of good - make that, great - doctor. Baltimore Sun "With this engaging (if spectacularly subtitled) biography, Imber brings into focus the amazing strides medicine has made over 150 years." Publishers Weekly "Imber provides a few other colorful details about Halsted: He named his dachshunds "Nip" and "Tuck" and was such an indifferent college student that "there is no record of Halsted ever having borrowed a book from the Yale library." He did crack a book during his senior year: Gray's "Anatomy," which inspired him to pursue medicine." Washington Post A gripping mixture of medical history and detailed biographical analysis.".. " Huffington Post He provides a vivid sense of many larger-than-life personalities, including those of William Welch, William Osler, Howard Kelly, Harvey Cushing, and Walter Dandy. His powers of description are compelling, and his carefully chosen words seem to let the monumental events speak for themselves. The book is a must-read for residents. The residency of the 21st century is evolving from that of the 20th, but it will be a long time before Halsted's imprint is no longer palpable. Anesthesiology Gerald Imber has captured in one grisly sweep the barbarism of both early surgery and the manure-trodden streets it grew from. Like Doctorow's RAGTIME, it's evocative in broad strokes .Not just for history buffs, Imber gives any reader a character for the ages. Riveting. Mary Karr, author of "The Liars Club ""
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About the Author
Dr. Gerald Imber is a well known plastic surgeon and authority on cosmetic surgery, and directs a private clinic in Manhattan. An early proponent of prevention and minimally invasive procedures, he has devised many popular anti-aging techniques, and is attending surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital and assistant clinical professor of surgery at Weill-Cornell School of Medicine. Dr. Imber has published many scientific papers and is a regular lecturer at professional meetings. He is also the author of a number of “beauty books” and has written on many subjects for varied publications such as Departures, and The Wall Street Journal, and appears regularly on network television.
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Product details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; 1 edition (February 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781607148586
ISBN-13: 978-1607148586
ASIN: 1607148587
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
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This is a fascinating exploration of one of American Medicine's great men. It tells the story of Halsted, but also gets into the other great men of those key times and places that were so formative to medical treatment and training in America. This book is thorough enough to cover the subject, but not so deep that it gets tedious. It presents information about what may be some of the controversial aspects of some of those men without passing judgement or making assumptions that cannot be supported. Overall it is a great presentation of a great man who lived in a great age of American Medicine, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
I enjoyed the facts in the book, but it was not particularly well written. The premise of the book is weak, for Dr. Halsted seems to have left little by way of information about his addictions. What information there was, particularly as regards his later years, could have been condensed into a chapter. While interesting, it was a weak organizing principle for the whole work. Toward the end of the book, Dr. Imber seemed to be speculating rather than working from any historical record.Further, this reads like something of a hagiography, especially in later chapters. William Steward Halsted was undeniably a great surgeon, but it seems important to Dr. Imber that he was also a good man. This leads to some looseness of interpretation of the cited primary sources. One example that particularly stood out was the assertion that Dr. Halsted had a happy, if odd, marriage. However, any sources Dr. Imber cited directly from Caroline Halsted seemed to support the opposite conclusion. In fact, she sounds profoundly unhappy in several. This topic, among many others, would have borne further analysis, but none was forthcoming.However, for all its weaknesses, this is not a bad book. It is as a chronicle of the founding of Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School that it really shines. The men and women instrumental to the process are captured in vivid descriptions, and their dramas take on life for the reader. (In the best chapters, Dr. Imber achieves this same vividness with regard to Dr. Halsted's life, as well). He beautifully captures the excitement and camaraderie of a group of the first days of Hopkins, as the spirit of scientific inquiry found new heights in the work of these physician-scientists. If you pick up Genius on the Edge only for that, it will have been worth the read.
The special appeal of this excellent new biography of William Halstead is two fold. First the special insight provided by the author's own experience as a surgeon makes the subject of this book come to life in a way that a typical biography would not . His perspective also illuminates the unique interplay between Halstead's enormous talent and a life long struggle with addiction. This is done in a sensitive and thoughtful but unsparing analysis which, to my knowledge, has not been done before. Secondly, the book includes a wealth of historical information concerning the early history of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Hospital as well as the state of American medical practice and education in that era. Without this context a full understanding of Halstead's enormous contributions and limitations would not be possible.The early Hopkins faculty and the generation of younger physicians they recruited and taught profoundly influenced the evolution of medicine in America. Dr. Imber explores the complex relationships between them and their many accomplishments in fascinating and instructive detail. Surprisingly, many of the conflicts we think of as part of modern medicine (between town and gown, laboratory and bedside medicine, full time and part time faculty) were already at play around the turn of the 20th century. These issues are also described in relation to the remarkable personalities of Halstead and the men and few women he worked with.The text is not as polished and well annotated as it might have been in the hands of a professional historian. However, whatever the level of these imperfections might be, they are fully compensated by Dr. Imber's complete grasp of the working lives of physicians and medical scientists as well as the diseases they struggle with.
If you are interested in the history of medical education, this is a good book to read. It's also fascinating to read how William Halsted accomplished so much, to so much acclaim, all the while addicted to morphine. He's not an easy character to portray because he revealed so little of himself, whether to hide his addiction or his natural reticence, or both.The book also does a good job of showing how Johns Hopkins developed as the top medical school in the country, its history culminating on New Year's Eve, 1943, when I was born there.
This biography of Dr. William Halstead, one of the founding fathers of modern surgery, is impressive. Although the title has a focus on his addiction to cocaine, brought about by his self-experiments on its use on surgery as a local anesthetic (a good marketing gimmick), the book is exceedingly complete on his life and works, based in part on a lot of published and original material. What I found most fascinating was to see about the birth of modern medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, since I have been a medical educator for the past 40 years, and the fabulous contributions of Halstead, such as evidence-based surgery (based on meticulous and exhaustive experiments with animals), anesthesia, gentle surgical handling, hemostasis, asepsis, etc. all not invented by him, but applied as a whole set of procedures which revolutionized surgery at his time. Most of the US surgeons are indirect "children" of his school. I strongly recommend this fascinating biography for anyone interested in the history of medicine and in medical education.
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