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Invasion of the Body

Revolutions in Surgery

Nicholas L. Tilney

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$41.00 • £35.95 • €37.95

ISBN 9780674062283

Publication Date: 09/26/2011

384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

33 halftones

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Nicholas L. Tilney held the posts of Honorary Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and Francis D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School.

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Listen to Nicholas Tilney discuss the 1913 surgery of Mary Agnes Turner—the first to be performed at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital—on WBUR’s Radio Boston
Listen to an interview with Dr. Tilney on KPCC (Southern California)’s Patt Morrison Show

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2012 Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Writing, New England Chapter of the American Medical Writers Association

A Wall Street Journal Best Medical Book of the Year, 2011

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