Surgery of the Soul: Reflections on a Curious Career History of Medicine preserved the manuscripts that remain

preserved the manuscripts that remain the chief sources for documenting Horace Wells’s life

Such efforts increased after the technical revolution inspired by the introduction of glass-blowing during the first century BCE

Specialization has often conflicted with a more general interest in the quest for truth

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a classic text of the French enlightenment

Surgery of the Soul: Reflections on a Curious Career History of Medicine preserved the manuscripts that remainMurray, Joseph E., 2004, xxiv + 257pp., illustrated, revised ed., paperback. 2nd printing, minor revisions, 2012 This remarkable book is the autobiography of one of the 20th centurys most honored surgeons, Joseph E. Murray, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990. In it, Dr. Murray describes his role in breakthrough research in human organ transplantation and his pioneering advances in surgical techniques to correct deformities of