Waterstones Under the Knife
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Price: £12.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times' Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday' Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering. a book that invites readers to peer up the bottoms of kings, into the souls of rock stars and down the ear canals of astronauts' The Daily Telegraph How did a decision made in the operating theatre spark hundreds of conspiracy theories about JFK? How did a backstage joke prove fatal to world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini? How did Queen Victoria change the course of surgical history? Through dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his experience and expertise to tell an incisive history of the past, present and future 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.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781473633681
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781473633681
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Author: C. Thompson
Rating: 5
Review: I read this book whilst in hospital having a urostomy! What a very well researched book, full of fascinating stories from the history of surgery. Even my surgeon said it was a good book. A must for anyone interested in an alternative history of what was once a very butchering "art," written with a sense of humour. That any patients survived is a miracle. My medical knowledge greatly increased with this eye-opening book and thankfully my modern urostomy was a great success. I left hospital feeling unbelievably fortunate that all these poor souls had suffered in the name and advancement of medicine, to afford me a life-saving operation today. A really good read and one that could be dipped into at any chapter. Highly recommended.
Author: Donny Rock
Rating: 3
Review: A sort of a history of surgery told through twenty-eight different operations/procedures. This is a somewhat flat recitation of facts which could have done with some more lightness, assuming the target audience id the general public. I didn't like the all too frequent use of acronyms, Latinisations and initials. The author does try to explain medical terms and conditions, but, possibly, this might have been better achieved by absorption into the text proper rather than the boxes which rather split up the flow.. Nevertheless, this is a very informative book.
