Blood and Guts
Author: Hollingham, Richard
ISBN: 9781785940248
Publisher: BBC EBURY
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 234mm x 154mm x 26mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A colourful narrative history on the macabre world of surgery
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of selfless men working tirelessly in the pursuit of medical advancement. Instead it's a bloodstained tale of blunders, arrogance, mishap and murder. In trying to keep us alive, surgeons have all too often killed us off, and life-saving solutions have often come from the most surprising places.
Accompanying a BBC series, Blood and Guts is an incredible story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients - and every now and then courageous advances that have saved the lives of millions around the world.
You may think twice before going under the knife...
ISBN: 9781785940248
Publisher: BBC EBURY
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 234mm x 154mm x 26mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A colourful narrative history on the macabre world of surgery
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of selfless men working tirelessly in the pursuit of medical advancement. Instead it's a bloodstained tale of blunders, arrogance, mishap and murder. In trying to keep us alive, surgeons have all too often killed us off, and life-saving solutions have often come from the most surprising places.
Accompanying a BBC series, Blood and Guts is an incredible story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients - and every now and then courageous advances that have saved the lives of millions around the world.
You may think twice before going under the knife...
