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Автор: Fitzharris, Lindsey
Название: The Butchering Art
Перевод названия: Линдси Фицхаррис: Искусство препарирования
ISBN: 9780241262498
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Классификация:

История Британии и Ирландии

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

История медицины

Хирургия

ISBN-10: 0241262496
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.53 кг.
Дата издания: 05.10.2017
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson PrizeThe 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 historyVictorian operating theatres were known as gateways of death, Lindsey Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didnt 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 couldnt 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 novelists eye for detail, Fitzharris brilliantly conjures up the grisly world of Victorian surgery, revealing how one of Britains greatest medical minds finally brought centuries of savagery, sawing and gangrene to an end.

The Butchering Art, Fitzharris, Lindsey