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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
ISBN/EAN | 9781473633681 |
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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
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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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