2247270The Butchering Arthttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-butchering-art/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1869739/31ae13c4-1f4e-4842-8adb-9e98ff2afb56.jpg?v=638342097189300000210273MXNFarrar, Straus and GirouxInStock/Ebooks/Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian"Warning: She spares no detail!" Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead WakeIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theatersno place for the squeamishand surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than patients afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldnt have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the riddle and change the course of history.Fitzharris dramatically reconstructs Listers career path to his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection and could be countered by a sterilizing agent applied to wounds. She introduces us to Listers contemporariessome of them brilliant, some outright criminaland leads us through the grimy schools and squalid hospitals where they learned their art, the dead houses where they studied, and the cemeteries they ransacked for cadavers.Eerie and illuminating, The Butchering Art celebrates the triumph of a visionary surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world....2076711The Butchering Art210273https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-butchering-art/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1869739/31ae13c4-1f4e-4842-8adb-9e98ff2afb56.jpg?v=638342097189300000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20179780374715489_W3siaWQiOiIzNzI1NmU1Mi1lYzQ1LTQ2YTUtOTBlYS0zYTNmMWViNzJiM2YiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI2NiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjYxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIwNSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780374715489_pstrongWinner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing/strongbr /strongShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prizebr /A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, emPublishers Weekly/em/strongbr /strongA Best History Book of 2017,/strong emstrongThe Guardian/strong/em/ppstrongWarning: She spares no detail! Erik Larson, bestselling author of emDead Wake/em/strong/ppIn emThe Butchering Art/em, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theatersno place for the squeamishand surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than patients afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldnt have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the riddle and change the course of history./ppFitzharris dramatically reconstructs Listers career path to his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection and could be countered by a sterilizing agent applied to wounds. She introduces us to Listers contemporariessome of them brilliant, some outright criminaland leads us through the grimy schools and squalid hospitals where they learned their art, the dead houses where they studied, and the cemeteries they ransacked for cadavers./ppEerie and illuminating, emThe Butchering Art/em celebrates the triumph of a visionary surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world./p9780374715489_Farrar, Straus and Girouxlibro_electonico_00f5529b-bdf0-3ca5-9f75-6b13cd1d4483_9780374715489;9780374715489_9780374715489Lindsey FitzharrisInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/macmillan-epub-63f61213-52b0-4d40-8373-a4b8f77a3c74.epub2017-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Farrar, Straus and Giroux