This biography is an important historical work of scholarship. It chronicles DeBakey's remarkable life and surgical contributions and is also a history of the pioneering days of heart surgery.
Craig A. Miller, MD, is an author and vascular surgeon who lives in Columbus, Ohio. His books have been published in several languages and editions. He has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ohio State University Medical Heritage Center and a Michael E. DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.