Screen LibraryCaring for the heart : Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 672 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199982356 (alk. paper) : 019998235X (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | RC681 |
| CLC: | R541 |
| Call Number: | R541/F997 |
| Contents: | The nineteenth-century origins of the Mayo practice -- The Mayo's invention of multispecialty group practice -- The development of an academic medical center in Rochester -- Patient care and clinical research in the 1920s -- The electrocardiograph and the birth of cardiology -- Challenges and changes during the depression -- President Roosevelt's secret hypertensive heart disease -- The reinvention of the American Heart Association, and the invention of cardiac catheterization -- Surgeons begin trying to treat heart disease -- Pioneering open-heart surgery at the University of Minnesota and |