The Butchering Art

by Lindsey Fitzharris

  • Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • 2017
  • ISBN: 978-0374117290
  • 286 pages
  • WorldCat
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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
Lindsey Fitzharris MD
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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