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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...



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Blood and Guts is an excellent history of surgery... a highly readable book, full of gripping anedcotes * Irish Mail on Sunday *

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

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    A Paperback / softback by Richard Hollingham, Michael Mosley

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      Publisher: Ebury Publishing
      Publication Date: 04/02/2016
      ISBN13: 9781785940248, 978-1785940248
      ISBN10: 1785940244
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      Science & Nature History of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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...



      Trade Review
      Blood and Guts is an excellent history of surgery... a highly readable book, full of gripping anedcotes * Irish Mail on Sunday *

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