Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. PART I. Alabama 1918-1938
5. CHAPTER 1. Growing Up in Alabama 5
6. CHAPTER 2. College at the University of Alabama 19
7. PART II. Philadelphia 1938-1951
8. CHAPTER 3. Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania 31
9. CHAPTER 4. Internship at University of Pennsylvania Hospital 58
10. CHAPTER 5 Medical Resident at Penn 70
11. CHAPTER 6. With the U.S. Army in England, France, and Germany (From a Medical Officers Journal) 78
12. CHAPTER 7. The 1940s: The Rise of Physiologic Surgery 120
13. CHAPTER 8. Isidor Schwaner Ravdin 124
14. CHAPTER 9. Resident in General Surgery at Penn 132
15. CHAPTER 10. Resident in Thoracic Surgery and Surgical Staff at Penn 144
16. CHAPTER 11. The 1950s: Cardiovascular Surgery Comes of Age 159
17. PART III. Memphis 1951-1955
18. CHAPTER 12. The Medical College of the University of Tennessee: Surgery Staff Member and Director of Surgical Research 167
19. PART IV. Jackson 1955
20. CHAPTER 13. A New Medical School Is Established in Jackson 183
21. CHAPTER 14. Human Organ Transplantation 240
22. CHAPTER 15. The First Lung Transplant in Man 264
23. CHAPTER 16. The First Heart Transplant in Man 269
24. CHAPTER 17. The Developing Department of Surgery: Further Progress 289
25. CHAPTER 18. Called Urgently to Peru 313
26. CHAPTER 19. National and International Participation and Awards 320
27. CHAPTER 20. The 1970s: The Practice of Surgery Is Changing 339
28. CHAPTER 21. The Surgeon Becomes the Patient: My Own Operations 343
29. CHAPTER 22. Family 351
30. CHAPTER 23. A Look Backward and a Summing Up 362
31. Index 373