The Special Field: A History of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins

by Neil A. Grauer

The Special Field: A History of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins provides a lively and riveting account of the history of Johns Hopkins neurosurgery from its founding at the dawn of the 20th century to this day.Johns Hopkins was the birthplace of modern neurosurgery. When Harvey Cushing, then an associate professor of surgery at Hopkins, published "The Special Field of Neurological Surgery" in the March 1905 issue of the widely circulated Bulletin of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692516174
• ISBN13: 9780692516171
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: JHU Department of Neurosurgery
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 6.00 lbs.