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DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Shortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and the 2018 Wolfson History Prize The story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world - the safest time to be alive in human history In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today. Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since ...
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Books of the Year, Guardian The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not receive the he...
Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by . . . well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome-but the remedies were even worse. Get to know the ickiest illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations through the ages. Each chapter explores the story of a disease, including the scary symptoms, kooky cures, and brilliant breakthroughs that it spawned. Medical historian and bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris lays out the facts with her trademark wit, and Adrian Teal adds humor with cartoons and caricatures drawn in pitch black and blood red. Diseases covered in this book include bubonic plague, smallpox, rabies, tuberculosis, cholera, and scurvy. Thanks to centuries of sickness and a host of history's most determined plague-busters, this riveting book features everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's deadliest diseases.
Als Harold Gillies die Verheerungen des Ersten Weltkriegs mit eigenen Augen sieht, ist er schockiert. Zu viele junge Männer werden nach nur einem falschen Augenblick ihrem Schicksal überlassen: für immer entstellt, für immer Monster in den Augen der Gesellschaft. Nach seiner Rückkehr ins Königreich setzt der junge Arzt alles daran, einen Weg zu finden, um das Leiden zu verringern. Mit stetem Einsatz, vielen Verbündeten und unkonventionellen Methoden baut er die erste »Schönheitsklinik« der Welt auf und kämpft fortan gegen das Stigma einer Generation. Sein Leben wird zum Gründungsakt einer Disziplin, die unsere Gegenwart unmissverständlich prägt. Für die, die schön sein wollen, mussten andere leiden. Denn die Operationen der Schönheitschirurgie – Rhinoplastik, Lidstraffung, Fettabsaugung – haben ihren grausigen Ursprung im Ersten Weltkrieg. Im Schlamm der Schützengräben verlor eine ganze Generation das Gesicht, bis ein furchtloser Arzt den Grundstein legte für eine neue, revolutionäre Disziplin ... Lindsey Fitzharris erzählt packend und erkenntnisreich vom Leben dieses Mannes und dem Wert der menschlichen Züge.
I det 19. århundrede var operationer ikke for de sarte. Datidens kirurger arbejdede under primitive uhygiejniske forhold uden bedøvelse. En god kirurg skulle først og fremmest være stærk og hurtig med sit værktøj. Det krævede styrke og held at overleve en operation, men dermed var trængslerne ikke forbi. Tiden efter indgrebet var ofte farligere end den sygdom eller de skader, patienten oprindeligt led under. Aggressive infektioner gjorde nemlig dødeligheden blandt nyopererede alarmerende høj. En ung melankolsk kirurg, Joseph Lister, løste mysteriet om desinfektionen og ændrede historiens gang. Listers metoder forandrede kirurgien fra at være et brutalt og primitivt håndværk til at være en moderne videnskab - og reddede samtidig hundredtusindvis af menneskeliv.
Uma viagem assombrosa pela história da cirurgia Em Medicina dos horrores, a historiadora Lindsey Fitzharris narra como era o chocante mundo da cirurgia do século XIX, que estava às vésperas de uma profunda transformação. A autora evoca os primeiros anfiteatros de operações — lugares abafados onde os procedimentos eram feitos diante de plateias lotadas — e cirurgiões pioneiros, cujo ofício era saudado não pela precisão, mas pela velocidade e pela força bruta, uma vez que não havia anestesia. Não à toa, os mais célebres cirurgiões da época eram capazes de amputar uma perna em menos de trinta segundos. Trabalhando sem luvas e sem qualquer cuidado com a higiene básica, es...
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Nemocnice 19. století představovala spíš bránu smrti než místo léčení. Úmrtnost byla masivní. Chirurgové pracovali bez anestezie za řevu pacientů a jejich nejcennější vlastností nebyla pečlivost, ale rychlost. Operační sál bylo divadlo s jevištěm a operace krvavou exhibicí pro lačné oči diváků. Scéna se mění teprve mezi lety 1860 až 1875. Chirurg Joseph Lister se přiklání k nehoráznému tvrzením Louise Pasteura, že původcem infekcí jsou bakterie, a svádí odvážný a nerovný boj o prosazení antisepse a sterilizace. Dramatický příběh, který se odehrával v přízračných kulisách viktoriánské Anglie, líčí oceňovaná kniha sugestivním, téměř beletristickým stylem.
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Impresionante e iluminador, De matasanos a cirujanos celebra el triunfo de Joseph Lister, un personaje visionario cuyo propósito de unir ciencia y medicina nos catapultó al mundo moderno. Premio PEN / E. O. Wilson de literatura científica 2018 Tras la pista de un héroe perdido de la ciencia, este libro nos desvela el truculento mundo de la cirugía victoriana conjurando el ambiente de las primeras salas de operaciones y sus admirados «matasanos»: hombres sin miramiento elogiados por su habilidad y fuerza bruta al operar, antes de la invención de la anestesia. En vísperas de una profunda transformación de la medicina, estos pioneros, conscientes de que las secuelas de la cirugía era...