The Butchering Art
Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyA Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian Warning: She spares no detail! -Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters-no place for the squeamish-and surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute s…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-71548-9
- EAN: 9780374715489
- Produktnummer: 22462982
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'357 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 Black-and-White Illustration / Notes, Index
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Lindsey Fitzharris
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