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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

byLindsey Fitzharris

The Butchering Art is Lindsey Fitzharris's biographical portrait of joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of biography & autobiography. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention. It is written for readers seeking substance as well as a clear path through the material.

Publisher

Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication date

Oct 02, 2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9780374537968