Laparoscopy between the World Wars: the barriers to Trans-Atlantic exchange : spotlighting Heinz Kalk and John C. Ruddock
This profile of laparoscopic pioneers between the world wars “spotlights” Heinz Kalk, a German surgeon, and John C. Ruddock, an American internist. Social, political and economic upheavals characterized the decades between World War I and World War II and, along with geographic and communication restraints, permitted the concept of laparoscopy to develop differently in separate settings.
| Author: | Grzegorz S. Litynski |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-267399 |
| ISSN: | 1086-8089 |
| ISSN: | 1938-3797 |
| Pubmed Id: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=9876671 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons |
| Publisher: | Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons |
| Place of publication: | Miami, Fla. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 1997 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pagenumber: | 4 |
| First Page: | 185 |
| Last Page: | 188 |
| Institutes: | Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Note: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits for noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not altered in any way. |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerziell, Keine Bearbeitung 2.0 |
