Caring For The Heart: Mayo Clinic And The Rise Of Specialization

This study explores the parallel histories of the Mayo Clinic, the care of patients with heart disease, and specialization in cardiology during the twentieth century. Chapters are devoted to such technologies as open-heart surgery, coronary angiography, and echocardiography, and to the key individuals, instituions, and innovations that played vital roles in the technologies that transformed heart care.--From publisher description.

• | Author: Bruce Fye
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 02, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 704 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 019998235X
• | ISBN-13: 9780199982356