Blood and Guts, Richard Hollingham
Blood and Guts, Richard Hollingham
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Blood and Guts
A History of Surgery

Author: Richard Hollingham

Narrator: Liam Gerrard

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/28/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Medical, Surgery

Synopsis

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history. We have a ringside seat in the operating theater of University College Hospital in London as world-renowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs a remarkable amputation in thirty seconds—from first cut to final stitch. Innovations such as Joseph Lister's antiseptic technique, the first open-heart surgery, and Walter Freeman's lobotomy operations, among other breakthroughs, are brought to life in vivid detail. This is popular science writing at its best.

About Richard Hollingham

Richard Hollingham is a science journalist, author, and BBC radio presenter. He has written and presented a number of radio series on science, the environment, and international politics. His popular science book, How to Clone the Perfect Blonde, was longlisted for the coveted Aventis Science Prize in 2004.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melania 🍒

3.5|5 🩸 2020 TBR I’m inclined giving this 3 starts but I’m not sure exactly why. I certainly had a good time listening to this, it had lots of new information(for me) and it was well written. But, on the other side, this is just a short history, so you don’t get to spend a lot of time or get an in de......more

Goodreads review by Serena ♡

I don’t know how to feel about this. I often say I would like to be multiple people, just to understand a scientific field which can take up to a lifetime to grasp. I am fascinated with the field of surgery (and mortuary science, and microbiology, and all sorts of theoretical physics, just to name a......more

Goodreads review by Verónica

Entertaining. Interesting. A trip through the most remarkable events of the surgery. It cannot be taken as more than an accessible introduction to this discipline but I doubt that those who come to this book are looking for much more. In any case, it seems absolutely recommendable to me.......more

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