John G. Raffensperger

Children's Surgery

A Worldwide History

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Produktbeschreibung

The history of medicine and surgery is well documented, but this volume offers the first specific exploration of the treatment of and attitudes towards children with injuries and birth defects through the ages. Popular thought holds that children in ancient times with birth defects faced a short life of abandonment or neglect. Examination of written records from ancient Egypt, India, Greece, and Islam, however, shows that physicians and surgeons have attempted to find remedies to cure ailing youths from the beginning of recorded medical history. These essays document the origins of children's surgery, chronicle the history of children's surgery into modern times, and explore the treatment of the most common visceral birth defects. With contributing authors offering perspectives from a variety of cultures, this extraordinary collection will interest not only medical professionals, but also historians and others in the child care field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780786468256
• ISBN-10: 0786468254
• Artikelnr.: 34563815

Autorenporträt

John G. Raffensperger, M.D., a retired pediatric surgeon, is the author of numerous books on pediatric surgery.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Introduction     
PART I: IN THE BEGINNING
1: Aboriginal Surgery     
2: Egyptian Papyri and Ritual Surgery     
3: Biblical and Talmudic Accounts of Pediatric Conditions, Malformations
and Diseases (Juda Jona, M.D.)     
4: Pediatric Surgery in Ancient India (V. Raveenthiran, M.D.)     
5: Traditional Chinese Medicine ( Jin- zhe Zhang, M.D.)     
6: The Ancient Greeks and Hippocrates     
7: The Alexandrians and Galen     
8: From Galen to the Crusades     
9: Byzantium to Baghdad     
10: Salerno and the Universities     
11: The Anatomists     
12: Ambroise Paré (Praveen Goyal, M.D., and Andrew Williams, M.D.)     
13: Some New Birth Defects     
14: Return to Padua     
15: The Eighteenth Century     
16: The Nineteenth Century     
17: Pediatric Surgery in the Age of Lister     
18: Prelude to the Twentieth Century     
19: Children's Surgery Comes of Age     
PART II: SPECIFIC CONDITIONS AND TREATMENTS
20: Robert E. Gross (1905-1988) and Patent Ductus Arteriosus (W. Hardy
Hendren, M.D.)     
21: Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis     
22: Ano- Rectal Anomalies (Edward Doolin, M.D.)     
23: Clubfoot Through the Ages (Norris Carroll, M.D.)     
24: Appendicitis (Stephen Dolgin, M.D.)     
25: Necrotizing Enterocolitis     
26: Esophageal Atresia and Tracheo- Esophageal Fistula     
27: Wilms' Tumor     
28: History of Intussusception (Sigmund H. Ein, M.D., and Arlene Ein, R.N.)
     
29: A Historical Review of Hirschsprung's Disease (Sigmund H. Ein, M.D.,
and Arlene Ein, R.N.)     
30: Abdominal Wall Defects (Richard Ricketts, M.D.)     
31: Diaphragmatic Hernia     
32: Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida( John Ruge, M.D.)     
33: Abdominal Trauma     
34: Inguinal Hernia (Catherine M. Cosentino, M.D.)     
35: Atresias of the Jejunum, Ileum and Colon (Randall Powell, M.D.)     
36: Malrotation (Randall Powell, M.D.)     
37: Coarctation of the Thoracic Aorta (Jack H. T. Chang, M.D., and John
Burrington, M.D.)     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
About the Contributors     
Index