title: History and plastic surgery: systems of recovering our past.
abstract: Plastic surgeons have taken uncommon interest in their past. Systematized approaches toward the collection of historical information have characterized the specialty. Plastic surgery is the only discipline to have compiled a complete bibliography of its world's literature. The Archives maintains an ongoing program of acquisition of the oral, written, and personal memorabilia of the notable leaders and events of plastic surgery.
mesh_terms: D001109:Archives; D001634:Bibliographies as Topic; D006663:Historiography; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States