The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (747 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374117292 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lindsey Fitzharris has a PhD in the history of science and medicine from the University of Oxford. She is the creator of the popular website The Chirurgeon's Apprentice, and writer and presenter of the YouTube series Under the Knife. She writes for The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Lancet, and New Scientist.
Fitzharris takes us into the operating 'theaters' of yore, as Lister awakens to the true nature of the killer that turned so many surgeries into little more than slow-moving executions. Warning: She spares no detail!" Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake and The Devil in the White City"With an eye for historical detail and an ear for vivid prose, Lindsey Fitzharris tells a spectacular story about one of the most important moments in the history of medicinethe rise of sterile surgery. The Butchering Art is a spectacular bookdeliciously g
She conjures up early operating theatersno place for the squeamishand surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyThe gripping story of how Joseph Lister’s antiseptic method changed medicine foreverIn 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. These pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than pa