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The butchering art / Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating RD27.35.L57 F58 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.
- Lister, Joseph.
- Surgeons--Great Britain--Biography.
- Surgeons.
- Surgery.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Surgery--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
- Contents:
- Prologue : The age of agony
- Through the lens
- Houses of death
- The sutured gut
- The altar of science
- The napoleon of surgery
- The frog's legs
- Cleanliness & godliness
- They're all dead
- The storm
- The glass garden
- The queen's abscess
- Epilogue : The dark curtain, raised.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Erpf fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780374117290
- 0374117292
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