Introduction
1. Three operations
2. The teaching hospital
3. Evolution of a profession
4. Steps forward and steps backward
5. War and peace
6. The promise of surgical research
7. Operations on the heart
8. The mechanical heart
9. The transfer of organs
10. Making a surgeon, then and now
11. Shifting foundations
12. Unsolved challenges.
Invasion of the body : revolutions in surgery by Nicholas L. Tilney. ISBN 9780674062283. Published by Harvard University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.