Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted Book

Prologue ix

1 Tumultuous Times 1

2 Setting the Stage 9

3 Physicians and Surgeons 21

4 Becoming a Surgeon 29

5 New York 37

6 Cocaine 47

7 The Visionary 59

8 The Very Best Men 75

9 Baltimore 85

10 The Hospital on the Hill 95

11 Finding the Way 101

12 William Osler 105

13 The Operating Room 111

14 The Radical Cure of Breast Cancer 117

15 Life in Baltimore 127

16 The Big Four 139

17 Hernia 145

18 Establishing the Routine 155

19 Country Squire 167

20 The First Great Medical School 183

21 Teaching without Teaching 189

22 Residents 193

23 Changes 205

24 Into the 20th Century 221

25 Harvey Cushing 229

26 All Quiet on the Home Front 247

27 After Cushing 257

28 New Horizons 267

29 Addiction 277

30 Vascular Surgery 283

31 Scientist 287

32 A New Paradigm 297

33 A New Era 307

34 The World Changes 321

35 "My Dear Miss Bessie" 331

36 The Final Illness 341

37 Afterward 345

Epilogue 353

Acknowledgments 357

References 359

Index 375

About the Author 389