The Facemaker
One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not…
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- ISBN: 978-0-241-38937-9
- EAN: 9780241389379
- Produktnummer: 37145979
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.2 cm x D3.2 cm 622 g
- Gewicht: 622
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Lindsey Fitzharris is the author of The Butchering Art, which won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and the Wolfson History Prize. She received her doctorate in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology at the University of Oxford and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Wellcome Institute. She contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American and other notable publications.
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