Surgery without pain / William Morton and anesthesia -- Clean wounds / Joseph Lister and antisepsis -- Skeleton rays / Wilhelm Rontgen and xrays -- Blood is life / Karl Landsteiner and blood transfusions -- From sausage casings to six-million-dollar people / Willem Kolff, Robert Jarvik, and artificial organs -- New hearts for old / Norman Shumway, Christiaan Barnard, and organ transplants -- Better to see you with / Godfrey Hounsfield, Raymond Damadian, and medical imaging -- Epilogue: medical technology in the twenty-first century.
Summary:
Identifies specific scientists and their contributions to some of the major advances in technology that have transformed surgery and medicine in the past two hundred years.
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