Name: The Facemaker
SKU: 54960596
Price: 10.93 EUR
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Author: Lindsey Fitzharris
ISBN: 9780141990293

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Physical Book

Author

Lindsey Fitzharris

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x13 cm

ISBN13

9780141990293

The Facemaker

Lindsey Fitzharris (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Facemaker "

The poignant story of the 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. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero's welcome they deserved.

In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. 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 in Sidcup, south-east England. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of doctors, nurses and artists whose task was to recreate what had been torn apart. 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.

Meticulously researched and grippingly told, The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the poignant stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine and art can merge, 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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