Surgery, Science and Industry : A Revolution in Fracture Care, 1950s-1990s

This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based association, called AO. The success of the close cooperation between the AO's surgeons, scientists and manufacturers in establishing a complicated and risky technique as a standard treatment sheds light on the mechanisms of medical innovation at the crossroads of surgery, science and industry and the nature of modern medicine in general.

Thomas Schlick is a medical historian. He has published widely on history of 19th and 20th century science and medicine.