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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 secondsfrom first cut to final stitch. Innovations such as Joseph Listers antiseptic technique, the first open-heart surgery, and Walter Freemans lobotomy operations, among other breakthroughs, are brought to life in these pages in vivid detail.
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. This is popular science writing at its best.
a quick, entertaining read filled with operating-room dramas that end in disaster or triumph and a wide variety of heroes and villains. Kirkus Reviews
Author: Richard Hollingham
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781250057730
Language: English
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