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UCSF Oral History Program UCSF Surgery in the Postwar Years UCSF Surgery in the Postwar Years is the first of our oral history series to be devoted to a single field of clinical enterprise. More than any other category of clinician, surgeons throughout history have elicited responses from their colleagues in other clinical disciplines and from the general public, ranging from admiration and gratitude to resentment, envy and scorn. It is especially important, consequently at the turn of the twentieth century to go beyond the stereotypes and to document the clinical science of surgery in its full historical and human context directly in the voices of those who practice and research surgery. Philippe Bourgois, Ph.D. These interviews serve as a vehicle for examining tacit knowledge among surgeons as well as the requirements imposed by the institutions they served. Biography documents all human aspects of the academic life, and in these interviews readers can see how family background, career aspirations, patient care, lab work, teaching, and politicking intersected in single careers. By choosing a group of subjects who interacted within the same department over time, we can chart the impacts of multiple mentors, changing financial conditions, technological innovation and the influence of different leadership styles. The interviews contain exciting accounts of the inside workings of a surgery department, which serve to remind us of the extreme physical and emotional demands of surgery as a discipline. Nancy Rockafellar, Ph.D. Series Information:
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