Immortal Under The Knife

Under the knife: Surgical stories from around the world

The title and cover was enough to tempt me, as the book seemed like a humorous story about the life of a surgeon. But after reading, it was more than that.

Women under the knife: a history of surgery

readable-which was completed in the early 1970s, before the tide of "revisionism" hit this subject. Historians of psychiatry now tend to be rated on a scale of "Whiggism", where Grob would probably score about 50%, anything above being ideologically risky. In this, as in so many aspects of life, World War II emerges as the watershed. In 1941, American mental hospitals were seen as the appropria...

Ailing French health care system to go under the knife.

The French public health system — once praised by WHO as the best in the world — is overburdened, wasteful and in urgent need of an overhaul, says a government-commissioned report released in January. The diagnosis lays the groundwork for the second of two “modernization” packages — this one targeting the social security system that reimburses medical expenses, the other aimed at the public hos...

Becoming Immortal Becoming Immortal Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy

Dr. Carrel's immortal cells.