Harvey Cushing
A Life in Surgery

Harvey Cushing was the leading figure in the creation of modern neurosurgery. This biography traces his medical school education; his hospital-based surgical career; and his career as a battlefield surgeon during World War I. He has an enduring place in the field of medicine and his name has become part of medical lexicography.

Moreover, Cushing was also a leading authority on the pituitary gland and a pioneer of endocrinology. And in his spare time, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his massive two-volume biography of William Osler, who was Cushing's colleague. This is the definite Cushing biography, an epic narrative of high surgical adventure. Written by a prize-winning medical historian and acclaimed author, it captures the highs and lows of an extraordinary life, illuminating the contributions of a surgeon who has earned an enduring place in the pantheon of medical history.

Opening: The Surgeon and the General
1. Western Reserve: The Cushings of Cleveland
2. Making a Yale Man
3. Making a Harvard Doctor
4. Making an American Surgeon
5. A Window on the Brain
6. Opening the Closed Box: The Birth of Neurosurgery
7. The Bottom of the Box: Interrogating the Pituitary
8. Adieu the Simple Life
9. Adieu America: Cushing Goes to War
10. An American Surgeon at Passchendaele
11. Fathers and Sons
12. Johnson and Boswells: Chief and Harem
13. Sprinting to the Tape
14. Regius Professor at Yale
Closing: Inheritance and Memory