Since 1974, thousands of pitchers have had the same elbow reconstruction surgery first performed on Tommy John by Dr. Frank Jobe. Today, nearly one-third of current MLB pitchers have undergone the ...

Today marks the 50-year anniversary of one of the most important events in surgical history: On May 6, 1953, Dr. John Gibbon, a surgeon at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, performed the ...

Ch. 1. Surgery in prehistoric times -- Ch. 2. The early years of written history - Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India -- Ch. 3. Surgery in ancient Greece and Rome -- Ch. 4. The Dark Ages and the ...

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“The history of surgery is a series of awe-inspiring, discrete triumphs,” according to this smart survey from historian and surgeon Rutkow (Seeking the Cure). He begins in the Stone Age, when ...

There are some stories that act like fractals. They contain intricate patterns that zoom down into finer and finer detail, so that in the end, what first seemed like a simple concept actually contains ...

From the pioneering work of Galen on Roman gladiators to the latest advances in plastic surgery, this five-part series illustrates the evolution of surgical techniques—a story as much of mishaps and ...

Ira Rutkow’s “Empire of the Scalpel” is by turns fascinating and ghastly. By Henry Marsh When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. EMPIRE OF ...

All anxieties live in our bodies, but anxieties about our bodies feel particularly urgent. And since famous bodies are used to sell salve—cosmetics, waist-shapers, soft drinks—meant to soothe those ...