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tarabu42 (7 KP) rated The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine in Books

Oct 29, 2017 (Updated Nov 2, 2017)  
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris | 2017 | History & Politics
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A detailed, visceral, cutting exploration, whose accessible style opens the world of early surgical developments to all readers. (0 more)
Not for the squeamish, the suffering of previous generations is laid bare as the path to modern germ theory is developed. (0 more)
The Butchering Art (2017)
Another reviewer said of Dr. Fitzharris' work that its one failure was its accessible style. As far as I am concerned, that is only a fault in a work if its author wants to keep it out of the eyes, hands, and minds of the general public. Like some of the best historians and investigative journalists of decades gone by, Dr. Fitzharris approaches her subject with an open candor, accepting him warts and all, and laying out his life as it happened, her only agenda being the service of history.

This book will make every reader grateful for the medicine of the modern age and will make you pause as you remember the lives of those passed before us who made the accomplishments from which we benefit possible.