Blood and Guts A History of Surgery
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Blood and Guts A History of Surgery

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Full Title

Blood and Guts A History of Surgery
Author(s)

Richard Hollingham
Edition
ISBN

9781429987325, 9781250057730, 9780312575465
Publisher

Thomas Dunne Books
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously un dreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history. We have a ringside seat in the operating theater of University College Hospital in London as world-renowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs a remarkable amputation in thirty seconds—from first cut to final stitch. Innovations such as Joseph Lister’s antiseptic technique, the first open-heart surgery, and Walter Freeman’s lobotomy operations, among other breakthroughs, are brought to life in these pages in vivid detail. This is popular science writing at it’s best.

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