Новинки Линдси Фицхаррис

Lindsey 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: humankind’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. 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.

«Врата смерти» – именно так в XIX веке называли операционные театры. Все потому, что половина тех, кто попадал в госпиталь или на операционный стол, умирали либо до, либо после проведения процедур, хотя они и стали безболезненными после появления эфира. Это была эпоха, когда даже простой перелом мог привести к ампутации, так как хирурги и медсестры и не думали мыть руки и инструменты, они не знали, что таким образом сами убивают тех, кого хотели поставить на ноги.
Загадка послеоперационной смерти долгое время оставалась без ответа, и только Джозеф Листер смог решить ее, воспользовавшись микроскопом, природным любопытством, чрезмерным упорством и верой в светлое будущее. Он объявил микробов, а не воздух источником всех инфекций и предложил решение проблемы, тем самым изменив медицину навсегда.
Но путь его был не прост…

"Врата смерти", именно так в 19 веке называли операционные театры. Все потому, что половина тех, кто попадал в госпиталь или на операционный стол, умирали либо до, либо после проведения процедур, хотя они и стали безболезненными после появления эфира. Это была эпоха, когда даже простой перелом мог привести к ампутации, так как хирурги и медсестры и не думали мыть руки и инструменты, они не знали, что таким образом сами убивают тех, кого хотели поставить на ноги. Загадка послеоперационной смерти долгое время оставалась без ответа и только Джозеф Листер смог решить ее, воспользовавшись микроскопом, природным любопытством, чрезмерным упорством…

The story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world - the safest time to be alive in human history In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today. Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, when surgeons often…

In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These medical pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than their patients' afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn't have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history.

Fitzharris dramatically recounts Lister's discoveries in gripping detail, culminating in his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection--and could be countered by antiseptics. Focusing on the tumultuous period from 1850 to 1875, she introduces us to Lister and his contemporaries--some of them brilliant, some outright criminal--and takes us through the grimy medical schools and dreary hospitals where they learned their art, the deadhouses where they studied anatomy, and the graveyards they occasionally ransacked for cadavers.

Eerie and illuminating, The Butchering Art celebrates the triumph of a visionary surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world.