The standard textbook that has come to be called Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery was first published in 1969. It was edited by Schwartz, who, along with five other authors, wrote the content.

These doctors are intellectuals (it is brain surgery, after all ... and picture the sight of macerated brain tissue. But in Dr Schwartz’s telling, the impact of these grisly procedures on ...

Neurosurgeon Theodore Schwartz still remembers the first time he witnessed brain surgery in person. He was in medical school, and the surgeon sat in a special chair that was designed to hold the ...