The Butchering Art

by Author Lindsey Fitzharris

Publisher Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year published 2017
ISBN: ISBN 978-0374117290
Number of pages 286 pages
WorldCat

Topic(s) History of Medicine

About the Book

A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine. The story describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries. ebook icon Audio book icon

Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
Shortlisted for the 2018 Welcome Book Prize
Shortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson Prize
Entertainment Weekly’s Best New Books of 2017
Daily Mail, Guardian and Observer Books of the Year 2017
Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly
Spiegel Bestseller

About the Author

Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris is a New York Times Bestselling Author with a Ph.D. in the History of Science and Medicine from the University of Oxford. Lindsey writes regularly for a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, The Guardian, The Lancet, and New Scientist. Her television series on the Smithsonian Channel, The Curious Life and Death of…, explores some of the most mysterious deaths in history.

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