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The Facemaker - A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (Paperback): Lindsey Fitzharris The Facemaker - A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (Paperback)
Lindsey Fitzharris
R527 R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Plague-Busters! - Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases (Hardcover): Lindsey Fitzharris Plague-Busters! - Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases (Hardcover)
Lindsey Fitzharris; Illustrated by Adrian Teal; Adrian Teal
R409 R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

The Butchering Art - Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Paperback): Lindsey... The Butchering Art - Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Paperback)
Lindsey Fitzharris
R459 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R63 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Facemaker - One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (Paperback): Lindsey Fitzharris The Facemaker - One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (Paperback)
Lindsey Fitzharris
R355 R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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 hero's welcome they deserved. In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction in Sidcup, south-east England. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of doctors, nurses and artists whose task was to recreate what had been torn apart. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. Meticulously researched and grippingly told, The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the poignant stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine and art can merge, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.

The Butchering Art - Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Paperback): Lindsey... The Butchering Art - Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Paperback)
Lindsey Fitzharris 1
R334 R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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 Shortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson 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 half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, when surgeons often lacked university degrees, and were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers. While the discovery of anaesthesia somewhat lessened the misery for patients, ironically it led to more deaths, as surgeons took greater risks. In squalid, overcrowded hospitals, doctors remained baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn't have been more dangerous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: Joseph Lister, a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon. By making the audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection - and could be treated with antiseptics - he changed the history of medicine forever. With a novelist's eye for detail, Fitzharris brilliantly conjures up the grisly world of Victorian surgery, revealing how one of Britain's greatest medical minds finally brought centuries of savagery, sawing and gangrene to an end.

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