Cranial Surgery - Part 1 (Volume 284) (Progress in Brain Research, Volume 284) - Hardcover

Ganz, Jeremy Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0443238715 ISBN 13: 9780443238710

Publisher: Academic Press, 2024

Synopsis

This is a study of the evolution of the principles and techniques of cranial surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth century. The methods of conveying information by text and image are considered.

• Cranial Surgery
• Printing and Images
• Surgeons Conservatism

About this title

About the Author

Born 1943. Educated Craig y nos preparatory school Swansea, Ellesmere College, St. John's College Cambridge and St. Thomas's Hospital London. Trained in neurosurgery at Queen Square London, Frenchay Hospital Bristol and the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Practised as a neurosurgeon in Bergen from 1979 to 1993 and again from 2007 to 2010, when he retired. Between 1985 and 1990 undertook the work in Oslo which formed the basis for a doctoral thesis on intracranial epidural bleeding.
Between 1993 and and 2001 travelled the world teaching Gamma Knife neurosurgery and from 2001 to 2007 was the medical director of the Gamma Knife Center in Cairo. Since retirement in 2010 had one year teaching neurology to undergraduate medical students in Shantou in China. Since 2011 has been engaged in researching and publishing papers on neurosurgical history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443238715
• ISBN 13: 9780443238710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176