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Under the Knife
A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
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'This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times

'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday

'Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering . . . a book that invites readers to peer up the bottoms of kings, into the souls of rock stars and down the ear canals of astronauts' Daily Telegraph

How did a decision made in the operating theatre spark hundreds of conspiracy theories about JFK?
How did a backstage joke prove fatal to world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini?
How did Queen Victoria change the course of surgical history?

Through dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his experience and expertise to tell an incisive history of the past, present and future of surgery.


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ISBN-13: 9781473633650
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publication date: January, 2018
Pages: 384
Dimensions: 153.00 x 240.00 x 33.00
Weight: 625g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: General, General Issues

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