The Facemaker
A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xii, 315 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
"A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Prologue: "An unlovely object" -- The ballerina's rump -- The silver ghost -- Inspiration -- A strange new art -- The chamber of horrors -- The mirrorless ward -- Tin noses and steel hearts -- The miracle workers -- The boys on blue benches -- Percy -- Heroic failures -- Against all odds -- All that glitters.
Subjects:
Gillies, H. D. (Harold Delf), 1882-1960.
Plastic surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Surgery, Plastic -- History -- 20th century.
Disabled veterans -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Disfigured persons -- Treatment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Great Britain.
Gillies, H. D. (Harold Delf), 1882-1960.
Plastic surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Surgery, Plastic -- History -- 20th century.
Disabled veterans -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Disfigured persons -- Treatment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Great Britain.
ISBN:
9780374282301
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HEALTH History Fit | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HEALTH History Fit | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-294) and index.