title: The rhetoric of specialization. The 1978 Harvey Cushing oration.
abstract: The 1978 Cushing Orator shows the role of rhetoric in the process by which various specialties change in response to sociological and legislative demands. He discusses the effect of applying concepts of restraint of trade to medicine, and welcomes a closer liaison through the American College of Surgeons between general surgeons and other surgical specialties.
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice; D013502:General Surgery; D006077:Government Agencies; D006176:Gynecology; D007388:Internal Medicine; D008511:Medicine; D009774:Obstetrics; D010372:Pediatrics; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States