Astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making once unfathomable operations possible. - Kirkus Reviews. ...a quick, entertaining read filled with operating-room dramas that end in disaster or triumph and a wide variety of heroes and villains.
This is popular science writing at it\'s best.
But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress.
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously un dreamed of operations possible.
Innovations such as Joseph Lister\'s antiseptic technique, the first open-heart surgery, and Walter Freeman\'s lobotomy operations, among other breakthroughs, are brought to life in these pages in vivid detail.
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.
Veteran science writer Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative highlighting the key moments in surgical history.
But getting to this stage has not been without obstacles.
Astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making once unfathomable operations possible
