Trepanation, Trephining and Craniotomy

TREPANATION, TREPHINING AND CRANIOTOMY - History and Stories

PART I. INTRODUCTION. TREPAN, TREPHINE AND CRANIOTOMYChapter 1.An overview.Chapter 2.Semantic features.
PART II. MAGIC TIMES. TREPANATION IN PRIMITIVE CULTURESChapter 3.Facts and myths of primitive trepanations.Chapter 4.Techniques and tools for primitive trepanations.Chapter 5.The question of survival in primitive trepanations.Chapter 6.Historical and geographical areas of primitive trepanations.\
PART III. ORIGINS. TREPANATION IN CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN CULTURESChapter 7.The first documented reports of the surgical trepanations appear in the Corpus Hippocraticum. Greco-Roman trepanations.Chapter 8.Greco-Roman surgical instruments for trepanations.Chapter 9.Greco-Roman techniques and indications of trepanation.

PART IV. DARK TIMES. TREPANATION IN THE MIDDLE AGESChapter 10.Cranial trepanation during the Middle Ages. 
PART V. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. TREPANATION AND TREPHINE IN MODERN EUROPEAN CULTURESChapter 11.Surgical instruments for trepanation and trephine in Modern Age.Chapter 12.State -of-the-art' of the trepanation during the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries.Chapter 13.Relevant French, Italian and Spanish surgeons in trepanation over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Chapter 14.Other relevant European surgeons in trepanation over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Chapter 15.Trepanation out of Europe: New World and Japan.Chapter 16.Trepanation during the eighteenth century. To trepan or not to trepan.Chapter 17.Trepanation during the nineteenth century.Chapter 18.Trepanation at war times. Napoleonic Wars and North American Civil War.Chapter 19.The question of the high mortality of trepanation and trephine.Chapter 20.Evolution of the surgical technique of the trepanation and trephine in Modern Age.Chapter 21.Evolution of the surgical instruments for trepanation and trephine in Modern Age.Chapter 22.Evolution of the indications for trepanation and trephine in Modern

Dr. González- Darder received his medical degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Medical School of the Literary University ofValencia in 1977 and completed his training as neurosurgeon in the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia in 1982.

He held the highest honors in the M.D. and Ph.D. degree exams and was admitted as Membership of the Academy of Medicine ofValencia. From 1982 to 1992, he held a position as Neurosurgeon and Professor of Neurosurgery in the Hospital and MedicalSchool of Medicine of the University of Cádiz. He was director of the Investigation Group 3080 of the Junta de Andalucía, Vice-Deanof the Medical School and Head of the Central Service of Investigation of the University of Cádiz.

In 1992 moved to Castellón as Head of the Department of Neurosurgery of the Hospital General de Castellón. Since 2007, Dr. González-Darder has headed the Department of Neurosurgery at the Hospital Clínico Universitario of Valencia and served as an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Department of Surgery, University of Valencia.

He is author and coauthor of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and three books, he was accredited as Chairman in the Health Science Area by the Ministry of Education of the Spanish Government in 2013.