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...intervening decade, brain surgery advanced dramatically, enabling doctors to refine their operating techniques enormously with the aid of more sophisticated medical technology. Today they can chart a far safer passage to tumors hidden deep in the brain. But, more to the point for Schuler, Dr. Keith Black, the man who stands over her exposed brain with scalpel in hand, is one of the world's most talented brain surgeons, known for working with the most difficult of brain tumors...
...colleagues: an absolutely unshakable devotion to a single task. Says Dr. Edward Oldfield, chief of surgical neurology at the National Institutes of Health: "This is the unique feature of his career--the way he is using rather striking advances in basic science in the application of new treatments." Keith Black is fighting an all-fronts war against brain cancer...
...Auburn, Ala., during the George Wallace era. When he could not integrate the student body, he integrated the staff instead and began teaching French to fourth-graders. When his sons wanted to swim in the all-white community pool, he told them to do it. And when young Keith showed an early fondness for dissection, he brought home a cow's heart from the local slaughterhouse. "He was the ultimate educator," Black recalls. "He instilled in us an attitude that there is nothing that you cannot...
...would he do instead? "I guess I'd go back and try to define consciousness," he speculates. "That's what I would really love to do." He would, in short, move from a seemingly impossible crusade to one that promises to be even more difficult. For anyone who knows Keith Black, that would come as no surprise...
...Upton '99 Feature Editor: Anne C. Krendl '98 Story Editors: Jason T. Benowitz '00, Ariel R. Frank '99, Abby Y. Fung '99, Andrew A. Green '98, Adam S. Hickey '99, Gregory S. Krauss '00, Flora Tartakovsky '98 Design Editor: Gabby Schmajuk '99 Sports Editors: Rebecca A. Blaeser '98, Keith S. Greenawalt '99 Editorial Editor: Talia Milgrom-Elcott '98 Photo Editor: Ronald Y. Koo '00 Business Editor: Carlos E. Famadas '99 Online Editor: Jennifer...