"Harvey Cushing;  A Life in Surgery"

Written by Michael Bliss

Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine and without doubt the greatest figure in the history of brain surgery.  Drawing a new collections of intimate personal and family papers, diaries and patient records, Michael Bliss captures Cushing's professional and his personal life in remarkable detail.  Bliss paints an engaging portrait of a man of ambition, boundless, driving energy, a fanatical work ethic, a penchant for self-promotion and ruthlessness, more then a touch of egotism and meanness, and an enormous appetite for life.  Equally important, Bliss trces the rise of American surgery as seen through the eyes of one of its pioneers.