The butchering art
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780374117290
Subjects: Surgery; Surgeons; Biography; History
Description: 286 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : The age of agony; title: Through the lens; title: Houses of death; title: The sutured gut; title: The altar of science; title: The napoleon of surgery; title: The frog's legs; title: Cleanliness & godliness; title: They're all dead; title: The storm; title: The glass garden; title: The queen's abscess; title: Epilogue : The dark curtain, raised.