Profs and Pints Northern Virginia presents: “The History of Plastic Surgery,” with Dr. Wendy Chen, plastic, reconstructive, and hand surgeon and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of ...

A look at the area of the body where surgery has been most frightening - the brain. Just over 100 years ago, cutting into the brain was a terrifying prospect for both patient and surgeon. They could ...

Nestled along Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast is an old mansion that resembles a French chateau. This isn’t Versailles. It’s Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science. Inside you’ll find ...

Democratic, divine and heroic: the history and historiography of surgery / Christopher Lawrence -- Seventeenth-century English surgery: the casebook of Joseph Binns / Lucinda McCray Beier -- Surgery ...

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 ...