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Author Lestrel, Pete E

Title Bernard G. Sarnat : 20th century plastic surgeon and biological scientist / Pete E. Lestrel
Published Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 335 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents pt. one. Background. ch. 1. Background. ch. 2. Tsarist Russia. ch. 3. The Pale of Settlement. ch. 4. Napoleonic Wars. ch. 5. Initiation of pogroms. ch. 6. Jewish emigration. ch. 7. The Bolshevik Revolution. ch. 8. Emigration to the United States. ch. 9. A new century. ch. 10. Roots in Belarus. ch. 11. Emigration to Chicago. ch. 12. Retail store to drugstores. ch. 13. Elementary lessons. ch. 14. Growing up in Chicago. ch. 15. Boy Scouts and on to high school. ch. 16. University undergraduate years (1929-1933). ch. 17. On to medical school and beyond (1933-1937). ch. 18. University of Illinois (1937-1940). ch. 19. Marriage to Rhoda E. Gerard -- pt. two. A career in medicine and research. ch. 20. Training in plastic and reconstructive surgery (1940-1946). ch. 21. Life in St. Louis and Chicago. ch. 22. Practice of plastic and reconstructive surgery in Chicago (1946-1956). ch. 23. Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic Surgery (1946-1956). ch. 24. The move to California (1955). ch. 25. Personal life in Beverly Hills. ch. 26. Foreign travel. ch. 27. A close brush with death. ch. 28. Private practice in Beverly Hills (1956-1991). ch. 29. Academia and research (1956-present). ch. 30. A day in the life of a plastic surgeon. ch. 31. A day in the life of a biological scientist. ch. 32. A career as plastic surgeon and researcher
Summary This is a biography of Bernard G Sarnat, SB, MD, MS, DDS, FACS, a remarkable man who lived for most of the 20th century. Born in 1912 in the USA, he was the son of immigrant parents from Belarus, a former republic of the USSR. He received his MD degree from the University of Chicago, and his MS and DDS degrees from the University of Illinois. Dr Sarnat was a practitioner in the formative years of modern plastic surgery as well as an internationally known biological researcher in the area of craniofacial biology. He was one of the first bone researchers to apply the stain alizarin red S to docu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-316)
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Subject Sarnat, Bernard G. (Bernard George), 1912-2011
SUBJECT Sarnat, Bernard G (Bernard George), 1912-
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Subject Plastic surgeons -- United States -- Biography
Surgery, Plastic.
History, 20th Century -- Biography
History, 20th Century
Surgery, Plastic -- Biography
Skull -- growth & development
History, 20th Century -- Biography
Surgery, Plastic
Surgery, Plastic -- history
Surgery, Plastic -- Biography
Plastic Surgery Procedures
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- Plastic & Cosmetic.
Surgery, Plastic
Plastic surgeons
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008023231
ISBN 9789812813183
9812813187