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St. Martins Press-3pl Blood and Guts by Richard Hollingham Foreword by Dr Michael Mosley
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 worldrenowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs a remarkable amputation in thirty secondsfrom first cut to final stitch. Innovations such as Joseph Listers antiseptic technique the first openheart surgery and Walter Freemans lobotomy operations among other breakthroughs are brought to life in these pages in vivid detail. 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. This is popular science writing at its best. .a quick entertaining read filled with operatingroom dramas that end in disaster or triumph and a wide variety of heroes and villains. Kirkus Reviewsshow more