In Blood and Guts , veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history.
Innovations such as Joseph Lister\'s antiseptic technique, the first open-heart surgery, and Walter Freeman\'s lobotomy operations, amo.
We have a ringside seat in the operating theater of University College Hospital in London as world-renowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs a remarkable amputation in thirty seconds--from first cut to final stitch.
In Blood and Guts , veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history