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Blood and Guts - A History of Surgery (Paperback) Loot Price: R542
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Blood and Guts - A History of Surgery (Paperback)

Richard Hollingham; Foreword by Michael Mosley

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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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Imprint: St. Martins Press-3pl
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2009
First published: December 2009
Authors: Richard Hollingham
Foreword by: Michael Mosley
Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-05773-0
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Medicine > Surgery > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
LSN: 1-250-05773-6
Barcode: 9781250057730

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