Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted by Gerald Imber

Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted

Gerald Imber

389 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark informative reflective slow-paced
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A major new biography of the doctor who invented modern surgery. Brilliant, driven, but haunted by demons, William Stewart Halsted took surgery from a horrific, dangerous practice to what we now know as a lifesaving art. Halsted was born to wealth...

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