The History of American Surgical Pathology. Contents: Some considerations on the origin, evolution and outlook of American Surgical Pathology * The birth and evolution of American Surgical Pathology * Surgical pathology at Johns Hopkins * Surgical pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York * Surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center * Surgical pathology at the hospitals of Harvard University Medical School * Surgical pathology at the Washington University Medical Center and Barnes Hospital * Surgical pathology at the Mayo Clinic * Surgical pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology * Notes on the education of an 'Oncological' Surgical Pathologist - The autobiography of Arthur Purdy Stout * Autobiographical notes of Lauren V Ackerman