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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