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Nobel Prizes for surgeons: In recognition of the surgical healing strategy

2006; Wolters Kluwer; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.ijsu.2006.04.012

ISSN

1743-9191

Autores

Thomas Schlich,

Tópico(s)

History of Medicine Studies

Resumo

Theodor Kocher (1909), Alexis Carrel (1912), Antonio Egas Moniz (1949) and Joseph E. Murray (1990) received Nobel Prizes for their accomplishments in the field of surgery. This essay puts these achievements in the context of the history of surgery, in particular its recognition of a field of modern medicine. It characterizes the view of the body that is associated with modern surgery and the specific surgical healing strategy that the Nobel Prizes acknowledged.

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