THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom...

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

"The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I" von Lindsey Fitzharris erzählt die faszinierende und bewegende Geschichte von Dr. Harold Gillies, einem Pionier der plastischen Chirurgie...

Grausig sind die Anfänge der Medizin: Leichenraub, blutige Operationen wie Kirmesspektakel, Arsen, Quecksilber, Heroin als verschriebene Heilmittel. Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ist das Unwissen der Ärzte sagenhaft, wie sie praktizieren,...

A gripping and morbid narrative history of Joseph Lister's transformation of surgery from the grotesquerie of the past to the procedures recognisable today. von Fitzharris, Lindsey

Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyA Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail!"...