surgery: Bibliography

See O. H. and S. D. Wangensteen, The Rise of Surgery (1979); R. Selzer, Confessions of a Knife (1979); A. S. Earle, Surgery in America (1965, rev. ed. 1983); R. M. Youngson, The Surgery Book (1993); N. L. Tilney, Invasion of the Body (2011).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Surgery in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
• The Birth of Modern Surgery
• Early History
• Bibliography

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