Mysteries Within A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body

"In [this book], Sherwin B. Nuland, a professor of surgery at Yale and the author of the best-selling HOW WE DIE, chronicles some of the ideas, many of them laughable that have been held about human organs in 2 1/2 millennia of recorded history. He intersperses these chronicles with exciting clinical stories from his own lengthy surgical career....With its multiple stories, [this book] may lack a certain unity of conception, but it does remind us--often in a graceful manner--that our current state of medical enlightenment is comparatively recent."Nuland, Sherwin B. is the author of 'Mysteries Within A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body', published 2001 under ISBN 9780684854878 and ISBN 0684854872.