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  • af Lindsey Fitzharris
    128,95 kr.

  • - Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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    106,95 kr.

  • af Lindsey Fitzharris
    188,95 kr.

    I det 19. århundrede var operationer ikke for de sarte. Datidens kirurger arbejdede under primitive uhygiejniske forhold uden bedøvelse. En god kirurg skulle først og fremmest være stærk og hurtig med sit værktøj. Det krævede styrke og held at overleve en operation, men dermed var trængslerne ikke forbi. Tiden efter indgrebet var ofte farligere end den sygdom eller de skader, patienten oprindeligt led under. Aggressive infektioner gjorde nemlig dødeligheden blandt nyopererede alarmerende høj. En ung melankolsk kirurg, Joseph Lister, løste mysteriet om desinfektionen og ændrede historiens gang. Listers metoder forandrede kirurgien fra at være et brutalt og primitivt håndværk til at være en moderne videnskab - og reddede samtidig hundredtusindvis af menneskeliv.

  • af Lindsey Fitzharris
    213,95 kr.

    Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by . . . well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome-but the remedies were even worse. Get to know the ickiest illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations through the ages. Each chapter explores the story of a disease, including the scary symptoms, kooky cures, and brilliant breakthroughs that it spawned. Medical historian and bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris lays out the facts with her trademark wit, and Adrian Teal adds humor with cartoons and caricatures drawn in pitch black and blood red. Diseases covered in this book include bubonic plague, smallpox, rabies, tuberculosis, cholera, and scurvy.Thanks to centuries of sickness and a host of history's most determined plague-busters, this riveting book features everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's deadliest diseases.

  • af Lindsey Fitzharris
    187,95 kr.

    The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I is an incredibly moving and insightful book written by the talented Lindsey Fitzharris. Published by PICADOR in 2023, this compelling narrative falls under the genre of historical non-fiction. Fitzharris masterfully combines medical history and wartime narrative to bring to life the story of a visionary surgeon who dedicated his life to treating the disfigured soldiers of World War I. The Facemaker not only sheds light on the horrors of war but also the indomitable spirit of those who seek to heal amidst chaos. This is a book that will leave you with a profound appreciation for the advances in medical science and the heroes who make them possible. A must-read published by PICADOR.

  • af Lindsey Fitzharris
    318,95 kr.

    A New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian"Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." -Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the VileLindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: humankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such an individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care.Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose task was to rebuild what had been torn apart, to re-create what had been destroyed. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits.The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine can be an art, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.

  • af Lindsey Fitzharris
    198,95 kr.

    Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyA Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail!" -Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters-no place for the squeamish-and surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than patients' afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn't have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the riddle and change the course of history.Fitzharris dramatically reconstructs Lister's career path to his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection and could be countered by a sterilizing agent applied to wounds. She introduces us to Lister's contemporaries-some of them brilliant, some outright criminal-and leads us through the grimy schools and squalid hospitals where they learned their art, the dead houses where they studied, and the cemeteries they ransacked for cadavers.Eerie and illuminating, The Butchering Art celebrates the triumph of a visionary surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world.

  • af Lindsey Fitzharris
    93,95 kr.

    I det 19. århundrede var operationer ikke for de sarte. Datidenskirurger arbejdede under primitive uhygiejniske forhold udenbedøvelse. En god kirurg skulle først og fremmest være stærk oghurtig med sit værktøj. Det krævede styrke og held at overleve enoperation, men dermed var trængslerne ikke forbi. Tiden efterindgrebet var ofte farligere end den sygdom eller de skader, patienten oprindeligt led under. Aggressive infektioner gjorde nemlig dødeligheden blandt de nyopererede alarmerende høj. En ung melankolsk kirurg, Joseph Lister, løste mysteriet om desinfektion og ændrede historiens gang. Listers metoder forandrede kirurgien fra at være et brutalt og primitivt håndværk til at være en moderne videnskab – og reddede samtidig hundredtusindvis af menneskeliv."Den britiske videnskabsforfatter Fitzharris fortælleret stykke medicinsk historie med denne fremragendebiografi om Joseph Lister, 1800-tallets store heltinden for kirurgiens udvikling."Publishers WeeklyLINDSEY FITZHARRIS tog sin ph.d. ividenskabshistorie og medicin på Oxforduniversitet. Hun skabte den populærewebside The Chirurgeon‘s Apprentice oger medforfatter og programvært påYouTube-serien Under the Knife.Hun har skrevet for The Guardian,The Huffington Post, The Lancet og NewScientist.

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