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Blood and Guts
- A History of Surgery
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Medicine & Health Care Industry
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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 30 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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- Kristin
- 08-25-19
I love this book!
wow this is well put together. I love the content! i totally recommend to everyone
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- Lenore Higgins
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Gruesome and good
Anyone who works in the medical field is going to love this book about medical history.