This article discusses four wide-ranging books that illustrate several facets of the history of surgery in the twentieth century, notably the shift of the centre of academic surgery from the German- to the English-speaking world, changes in the training of surgeons, advances in technique, and the opening of new fields.

ISSN 0823-2105

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