Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Humanities Press
Pages: 279
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978-1-63388-034-4 • Hardback • April 2015 • $50.00 • (£38.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
978-1-63388-035-1 • eBook • April 2015 • $47.50 • (£37.00)
""Seymour I. Schwartz offers an intelligent, engaging, and incisive account of the innovative efforts of noted physicians Andreas Vesalius and Ambrose Paré to attend the mortally wounded King Henry II of France after a jousting match in 1559. Following the death of the king, Schwartz carefully maps the broader political, religious, and medical terrain of the late Renaissance and the early Reformation that shaped an entire continent. The result is a book that intersects Schwartz's keen sensibilities and perspectives as a physician, surgeon, and historian of medicine.” —Stephanie Brown Clark, MD, PhD, Director, Division of Medical Humanities & Bioethics, University of Rochester School of MedicinePRAISE FOR THE WORK OF SEYMOUR I. SCHWARTZ:“Schwartz, known to every medical student as a result of his brilliant book Principles of Surgery, has now turned the focus inward in his book Gifted Hands.... There is no question that this is a book about heroes. They are compassionate intellectuals who forever changed the course of our medical history. Make no mistake; Seymour Schwartz is one of them." Dr SANJAY GUPTA, Faculty Neurosurgeon, Emory Clinic; Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN“Schwartz's superb research takes us back to the early sixteenth century with a riveting tale of the history of America's first map - a must read for map lovers and historians.”DAVID A. COBB, Curator, Harvard Map Collection (reviewing Putting "America" on the Map) “Schwartz provides a richly textured and illustrated biography of one of the most important maps in history.... I recommend it to the casual reader as well as the serious student of history." RALPH E. EHRENBERG, Former Chief, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (reviewing Putting "America" on the Map)
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