The_Invention_of_Surgery

preeminence, a firm commitment to long-term quality is mandatory. More so than in any other industry, the tracking of long-term ...

must undergo kidney transplant of a live organ, or stay on renal dialysis on a regular basis. At present, a hemodialysis machine ...

In a sense, over the next several decades, there will be a three-way war against disease: biological, implant, and genetic. Unti ...

necessary, since the gametes would share similarly purified genes. Babies will be born with “normal” chromosomes, free from the ...

surprisingly located in the forearm) to the digits. The surgeon must painstakingly decipher the jumble of tendons and pair them ...

As shown in this book, there are about twenty million implant operations per year in America. Much of our health care dollar rev ...

writer and director of Ex Machina.^5 To this author, Ava becomes a “girl” when we recognize that she has emotions and motives—pe ...

In a sense, you are already a cyborg. It is almost a guarantee that you, Dear Reader, have a smart phone, and that it is within ...

moving a muscle. Telepathic speaking, via neural probes to the language parts of our brain, must be possible. Sounds crazy? Plen ...

computers has exploded. By installing a software module enabling us to communicate through sophisticated spoken languages, we en ...

technology on the cusp of remedying genetic aberration, it seems that Kurzweil didn’t dream fantastical enough. Once we become t ...

The implant revolution had its roots in the founding of the genius societies in the 17th century, the birth of scientific surger ...

Evolution, glacial in its attainment, hid itself from every scientist’s view until an extraordinarily perceptive naturalist gras ...

Illustrations Insert Statue La Nature se dévoilant à la science (Nature is revealed through science), at the Université Paris 5 ...

The picture of the future: Dr. Charles Neer’s first shoulder implant, presented in The American Journal of Surgery, March, 1973. ...

Charles S. Neer II, MD, The father of modern shoulder surgery. Courtesy of Columbia University. ...

Muscle man from Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica, the iconoclastic 1543 human anatomy book that helped launch the R ...

Title page from De humani corporis fabrica with Andreas Vesalius at the center of the engraving. Title Page by Vesalius, Wellcom ...

Evolving view of the heart with unoxygenated “blue” blood in the right side of the heart and oxygenated “crimson” blood in the l ...

William Harvey’s breakthrough discovery of the valves in the veins of the arms, leading to his discovery of circulation. The Fun ...