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      Butchering Art

      Butchering Art

      Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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      Language:
      Engleza
      Publishing Date:
      2018
      Cover Type:
      Paperback
      Page Count:
      304
      ISBN:
      9780141983387
      Dimensions: l: 19.7cm | H: 12.9cm | 2.2cm | 228g

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      Publisher's Synopsis

      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
      Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Lindsey 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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