Richard Hollingham

Blood and Guts Richard Hollingham 1st edition

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously un dreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history. We have a ringside seat in the operating theater of University College Hospital in London as world-renowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs a remarkable amputation in thirty seconds?from first cut to final stitch. Innovations such as Joseph Lister?s antiseptic technique, the first open-heart surgery, and Walter Freeman?s lobotomy operations, among other breakthroughs, are brought to life in these pages in vivid detail. This is popular science writing at it?s best.