Blood and Guts
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Blood and Guts

A History of Surgery

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Blood and Guts

A History of Surgery

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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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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Year
2009
ISBN
9781429987325
Topic
History
Subtopic
Science History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1: Bloody Beginnings
  9. Chapter 2: Affairs of the Heart
  10. Chapter 3: Dead Man’s Hand
  11. Chapter 4: Fixing Faces
  12. Chapter 5: Surgery of the Soul
  13. Timeline
  14. Further Reading
  15. Index