The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374537968 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
286 pages ; 21 cm
print - Edition: First paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : The age of agony -- Through the lens -- Houses of death -- The sutured gut -- The altar of science -- The Napoleon of surgery -- The frog's legs -- Cleanliness and cold water -- They're all dead -- The storm -- The glass garden -- The queen's abscess -- Epilogue : The dark curtain, raised. |
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Subject: | Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography Lister, Joseph -- Baron -- 1827-1912 |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Castlegar Campus Library | WZ 100 L57 F55 2017 (Text) | B001694033 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |