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Blood and Guts
- Author
- Richard Hollingham
- Narrator
- Liam Gerrard
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 28 May 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Richard Hollingham
- Narrator
- Liam Gerrard
- Duration
- 8 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 May 2019
- ISBN
- 9781977349538
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Medicine: general issues, Surgery, Science: general issues, History of medicine, History of science
Synopsis
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history. 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. 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 vivid detail. This is popular science writing at its best.
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