Under the knife
Subtitle: a history of surgery in 28 remarkable operations
By: Arnold van de Laar
Contributors: Brown, Andy (Translator), translator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781250200105
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Surgery; History
Work titles: Onder het mes
Description: "Surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations - from Louis XIV to JFK, and from Einstein to Houdini. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers all kinds of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating theater. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a bacterium, a cancer cell or a bullet? And, as medical advances continuously push the boundaries of what medicine can cure, what are the limits of surgery? From the dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, Under the Knife is both a rich cultural history, and a modern anatomy class for us all"--
Notes: Translation of: Onder het mes : de beroemdste patiënten en operaties uit de geschiedenis van de chirurgie.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-331) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lithotomy; title: Asphyxia; title: Wound healing; title: Shock; title: Obesity; title: Stoma; title: Fracture; title: Varicose veins; title: Peritonitis; title: Narcosis; title: Gangrene; title: Diagnosis; title: Complications; title: Dissemination; title: Abdomen; title: Aneurysm; title: Laparoscopy; title: Castration; title: Lung cancer; title: Placebo; title: Umbilical hernia; title: Short stay, fast track; title: Mors in tabula; title: Prosthesis; title: Stroke; title: Gastrectomy; title: Anal fistula; title: Electricity; title: The surgeon of the future : a top 10.