(Paperback)

Military surgeons must assume a leadership role in combat casualty care in circumstances that are far less than ideal. This book provides the information needed to tackle these issues and features advanced principles and practices of forward trauma surgery as used by military physicians in far flung locations around the globe.

(Hardback)

With obesity rising at alarming rates in the US, UK, and developed countries around the world - so much that the US Department of Health has officially classified obesity as an illness and the World Health Organization has dubbed it a pandemic - weight-loss surgery is also on the rise.

(Hardback)

This book provides an overview of the current status of simulation in various surgical disciplines and explains the science of surgical education.

(Paperback, Main)

The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine.

(Hardback)

The nineteenth century saw a complete transformation of the practice and reputation of surgery. This book follows its increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing from the examples of surgical textbooks with a focus on the extraordinary visual materials of the mid-nineteenth century.