Blood and Guts - A History of Surgery
Author(s): Richard Hollingham; Michael Mosley (Foreword by)
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-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 vivid detail. This is popular science writing at its best.
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Ebury Press
- : 0.448
- : 04 February 2016
- : 2.6 Centimeters X 15.4 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Richard Hollingham; Michael Mosley (Foreword by)
- : Paperback
- : 617
- : 336