DR.IRA RUTKOW is a surgeon and the author of the new book, "Surgery: An Illustrated History," ...

DR.IRA RUTKOW is a surgeon and the author of the new book, "Surgery: An Illustrated History," (Mosby). The book has 386 illustrations including documents, photographs, cartoons, drawings and paintings related to surgery, taken from museums throughout the world. RUTKOW has also written a two-volume history of surgery in the U.S. and has written studies on Civil War surgery. He's also consulting editor for surgical history for the Archives of Surgery. RUTKOW is founder and surgical director of The Hernia Center in Freehold, N.J. and is clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.