Guiding the Surgeon's Hand: The History of American Surgical Pathology
- Walter F. Coulson, Reviewer, MD
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University of California, Los Angeles
Health Science Center
Los Angeles, Calif
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- rosai j, ed: guiding the surgeon's hand: the history of american surgical pathology
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edited by Juan Rosai, 295 pp, with illus, $40, ISBN 1-881041-42-5, Washington, DC, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1997.
It has given me the greatest pleasure to read this book, and I hope it will be a forerunner for other histories, such as that of European surgical pathology.
The book contains chapters on selected centers: Johns Hopkins University, by Darryl Carter; the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York, by Raffaele Lattes; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, by Leopold Koss and Philip Lieberman; Harvard University Medical School, by Robert Scully and Austin Vickery; Washington University Medical Center and Barnes Hospital, by Louis Dehner and John Kissane; the Mayo Clinic, by Lewis Woolner; and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, by Kamal Ishak. Included on the staffs of these centers are a majority of the most illustrious anatomic pathologists and, in more modern times, surgical pathologists. The chapter …
