The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
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The Butchering Art: Lindsey Fitzharris

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: European history
  • Genre / subject: British and Irish history
  • Author: Lindsey Fitzharris
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris is a history book. The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever.

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, and surgeons were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers. And 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 Quaker surgeon.

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