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Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
- How did a decision made in the operating theatre spark hundreds of conspiracy theories about JFK?
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.
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9781529353402
Author
Arnold van de Laar
Cover
oprawa miękka
Publisher
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Language
English
Liczba stron
368
Format
138 x 105 x 23
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