BUTCHERING ART FITZHARRIS LINDSEY Paperback
BUTCHERING ART FITZHARRIS LINDSEY Paperback Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for…
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BUTCHERING ART FITZHARRIS LINDSEY Paperback
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute strength. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyA Best History Book of 2017, The GuardianWarning: She spares no detail --Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead WakeIn 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 patients' afflictions, and they were baffled by the