Invention of Surgery: A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution

Although medicine has been part of the human experience for all of recorded history, it wasn't until the late 19th century that doctors and surgeons began to think about proactive surgery. Traditionally surgery was something saved for a last minute hail mary, something to be attempted only when death itself was on the line. Author Schneider, a medical doctor, argues that the 20th century practice orf implanting of foreign materials in the body awakened the imagination of biologists and surgeons and ushered in a medical renaissance unlike any in history. As much about the future of medicine as it is about its past, this is medical writing that everyone will want to read.

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