History of Surgery
Spartanburg Community College Library

Books are a good place to start...

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Ambroise Pare, Surgeon of the Renaissance R507 .P3 H3
American Surgery: An Illustrated History RD27.3 .U6 R87 1998

Anesthetics: Surgery Without Pain
RD79 .G35 1992
Century of Black Surgeons: The U.S.A. Experience
REF. RD 27.34 .C46 1987 Vol I & II
Classics of Medicine and Surgery
R133 .C2 1959
Great Ideas in the History of Surgery
RD19 .Z5 1993
History of Surgery in the United States, 1775-1900 REF. RD 27.3 .U 1988
Introduction to the History of General Surgery
RD19 .M35
Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery RD118 .G55 1999

Masters of the Scalpel: The Story of Surgery
RD19 .R53
Medical Theory, Surgical Practice: Studies in the History of Surgery
RD27 .M44 1992
Scalpel and the Heart
RD598 .R5 1970
Surgery: An Illustrated History
RD19 .R88 1993
Surgery: From Stone Scalpel to Laser Beam
RD19 .P46
Surgery: Old and New Frontiers
RD19 .R5 1969
Surgery in America: From the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century
REF. RD27.3 .U6 S94 1983
Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States
HQ755.5 .U5 R45 1991
Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery
RD119 .H35 1997
Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery
RG104 .D36 1991

To search for books...

Library catalog: UNICORN
        Suggested subject term:  surgery

Full text books online: eBooks

Online Encyclopedias

To search for journal, magazine and newspaper articles...
Note - Off campus users should access using the A-Z database list

Gale Database (journal, magazine and newspaper articles)
History Resource Center  (reference articles, historical overviews, etc.)
Health Sciences Databases (journal, magazine, newspaper and reference book articles)
Career and Technical (journal and magazine articles)

Internet sites...

The Surgery of Ancient Rome: University of Virginia
http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/instru.html

 

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