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Genius on the Edge, February 2012
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GENIUS ON THE EDGE
By: Gerald Imber

The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted

Kaplan Publishing
February 2012
On Sale: February 2, 2012
410 pages
ISBN: 1607146274
EAN: 9781607146278
Kindle: B003YFJ5PY
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Non-Fiction Biography

Dr. William Stewart Halsted’s life was fascinating and complex. Halsted, perhaps the most important surgeon America has ever produced, battled a lifelong cocaine addiction and maintained numerous secret relationships while simultaneously devising revolutionary medical innovations. Yet the story of Halsted’s life, one of seemingly irreconcilable extremes, is in many ways the story of modern medicine.

Before Halsted, poorly-trained doctors performed surgery without anesthesia in unsanitary conditions and patients were rarely expected to survive. Halstead transformed the medical practice by inventing local and spinal anesthesia; introducing the use of rubber gloves during surgery; pioneering the use of fine silk thread for sutures; developing techniques for stabilizing blood pressure during surgery; and inventing the radical mastectomy, blood transfusions, and surgical cures for hernias.

Genius on the Edge is an illuminating biography of a complex and troubled man whose brilliance we continue to benefit

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All Things Considered - January 19, 2012