The history of surgery in 28 famous operations - from Louis XIV to JFK, and from Einstein to Houdini.

 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?

'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

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ISBN/EAN 9781473633681
Author Arnold van de Laar
Publisher Hachette Books
Imprint John Murray
Publication date 11 Jan 2018
Format Paperback
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Under the Knife : A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

Arnold van de Laar
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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.

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