Cranial Surgery - Part 1

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-443-23871-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ganz, Jeremy Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Jeremy Ganz
Acknowledgements
Jeremy Ganz
Dedication
Jeremy Ganz
Section I BACKGROUND
1. Basic Considerations
Jeremy Ganz
2. Trepanning by Drilling
Jeremy Ganz
3. Prehistoric or Current Primitive Cranial Operations
Jeremy Ganz
Section II: DIFFERENT PERIODS AND LOCATIONS
4. Hippocrates (ca 460 BC to ca 370 BC)
Jeremy Ganz
5. Anatomy after Hippocrates
Jeremy Ganz
6. Rome - Celsus (ca 25 BC to ca. 50 AD)
Jeremy Ganz
7. Rome - Galen (129 to ca. 216)
Jeremy Ganz
8. Europe following Galen
Jeremy Ganz
9. Outside Europe
Jeremy Ganz
10. Emigration of Greek Knowledge to the Arab World
Jeremy Ganz
11. Late Middle Ages - Europe
Jeremy Ganz

Über Autor(innen)

Ganz, Jeremy Christopher
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.