Blood and guts : a history of surgery
Record details
- ISBN: 9780312575465
- ISBN: 0312575467
- ISBN: 9781250057730
- ISBN: 1250057736
- ISBN: 9781407024530
- ISBN: 1407024531
- ISBN: 9781429987325
- ISBN: 1429987324
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Physical Description:
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319 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2009.
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Published to accompany the BBC television series Blood and Guts, first broadcast on BBC2 in 2008"--BBC edition. "First published in Great Britain by BBC Books, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, a Random House Group Company"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Bloody beginnings -- Affairs of the heart -- Dead man's hand -- Fixing faces -- Surgery of the soul. |
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Subject: | Surgery History Medical errors History General Surgery history Medical Errors history |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | RD 19 .H65 2009 | 30775305542699 | General Collection | Available | - |
Blood and Guts : A History of Surgery
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Summary
Blood and Guts : A History of Surgery
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously un dreamed 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 these pages in vivid detail. This is popular science writing at it's best.