Author: Minetree, Harry
Title: Cooley: The Career of a Great Heart Surgeon. (SIGNED COPY)
Description: Harper's Magazine Press, New York, 1973. First Edition, Brown Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 9780061263828 Inscribed by person(s) connected with book. gilt titles spine; light brown e/p's.; bound in brown cloth but with a band of green cloth at top edge; a presentation copy to the British heart surgeon Ben Milstein from the American heart surgeon M. Terry McEnany with his inscription on the fep. - "To Ben Milstein, memories of an old friend, From Terry McEnany, August, 1974." - together with an inserted letter from McEnany to Milstein relating to the gift of the book. Also on fep. is an inscription from the subject of the book(Dr, Denton Cooley): "8.20.87 - To Ben (and Margaret) with sincerest best wishes and affection , Denton". "The dimensions of Dr. Cooley's genius simply overwhelm our ordinary notions of the modern doctor's role. His achievements in open-heart surgery are more than technological marvels - they are intrusions into the no-man's land between life and death, Intrusions breathtaking in their audacity. Harry Minetree has had the imagination to follow and define the doctor's great career, giving full value to the eerie shadow cast by the figure of such a hero of our times."; illustrated by b/w. drawings on pages 274 through 286 from 'Surgical Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease' by Herbert R. Smith"; slight bumping to corners; including index - 298 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Medicine & Health; Surgery; Heart Surgery; Heart Surgeons; Biography & Autobiography. Inscribed by person(s) connected with book. ISBN: 0061263826. ISBN/EAN: 9780061263828. Inventory No: MDC00008.

Keywords: BZDB227 Medicine/Medical/Surgery//Dr. Denton Cooley/Heart Surgery/Heart Surgeons Medicine & Health; Surgery; Heart Surgery; Heart Surgeons; Biography & Autobiography. Inscribed by person(s) connected with book Unbranded ISBN: 0061263826 EAN: 97800612638


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