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portada The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon' S Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World war i
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.1 x 14.1 x 2.3 cm
Weight
0.45
ISBN13
9781250872920
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon' S Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World war i

Lindsey Fitzharris (Author) · Picador · Paperback

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon' S Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World war i - Lindsey Fitzharris

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Synopsis "The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon' S Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World war i"

A New York Times Bestseller"Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." --Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the VileLindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery. From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. Lindsey Fitzharris's The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such an individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose task was to rebuild what had been torn apart, to re-create what had been destroyed. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine can be an art, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.
Lindsey Fitzharris
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Lindsey Fitzharris es una historiadora médica, escritora y presentadora de televisión estadounidense, nacida en 1982. Se especializa en la historia de la medicina y la cirugía, con un enfoque particular en los avances médicos del siglo XIX y principios del XX.

Obtuvo su doctorado en Historia de la Ciencia, Medicina y Tecnología por la Universidad de Oxford en 2009. Su carrera académica y profesional ha estado marcada por su interés en desentrañar las historias humanas detrás de los avances médicos, explorando cómo las prácticas quirúrgicas han evolucionado y cómo han impactado a las personas.

Fitzharris es autora de dos libros destacados: De matasanos a cirujanos, que narra la vida del pionero de la antisepsia Joseph Lister, y The Facemaker, que se centra en el cirujano plástico Harold Gillies y su trabajo con soldados desfigurados durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Ambos libros han sido reconocidos por su rigor histórico y narrativa cautivadora.

Además de su labor como autora, Fitzharris ha trabajado como presentadora en la serie de televisión The Curious Life and Death of..., transmitida por el Smithsonian Channel. Su enfoque accesible y apasionado por la historia médica ha capturado la atención de una amplia audiencia.
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