Bøger af Lindsey Fitzharris

I det 19. århundrede var operationer ikke for de sarte. Datidens kirurger arbejdede under primitive uhygiejniske forhold uden bedøvelse. En god kirurg skulle først og fremmest være stærk og hurtig med sit værktøj. Det krævede styrke og held at overleve en operation, men dermed var trængslerne ikke forbi. Tiden efter indgrebet var ofte farligere end den sygdom eller de skader, patienten oprindeligt led under. Aggressive infektioner gjorde nemlig dødeligheden blandt nyopererede alarmerende høj. En ung melankolsk kirurg, Joseph Lister, løste mysteriet om desinfektionen og ændrede historiens gang. Listers metoder forandrede kirurgien fra at være et brutalt og primitivt håndværk til at være en moderne videnskab - og reddede samtidig hundredtusindvis af menneskeliv.

Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by . . . well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome-but the remedies were even worse. Get to know the ickiest illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations through the ages. Each chapter explores the story of a disease, including the scary symptoms, kooky cures, and brilliant breakthroughs that it spawned. Medical historian and bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris lays out the facts with her trademark wit, and Adrian Teal adds humor with cartoons and caricatures drawn in pitch black and blood red. Diseases covered in this book include bubonic plague, smallpox, rabies, tuberculosis, cholera, and scurvy.Thanks to centuries of sickness and a host of history's most determined plague-busters, this riveting book features everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's deadliest diseases.

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I is an incredibly moving and insightful book written by the talented Lindsey Fitzharris. Published by PICADOR in 2023, this compelling narrative falls under the genre of historical non-fiction. Fitzharris masterfully combines medical history and wartime narrative to bring to life the story of a visionary surgeon who dedicated his life to treating the disfigured soldiers of World War I. The Facemaker not only sheds light on the horrors of war but also the indomitable spirit of those who seek to heal amidst chaos. This is a book that will leave you with a profound appreciation for the advances in medical science and the heroes who make them possible. A must-read published by PICADOR.

Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyA Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail!" -Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters-no place for the squeamish-and surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than 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 riddle and change the course of history.Fitzharris dramatically reconstructs Lister's career path to his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection and could be countered by a sterilizing agent applied to wounds. She introduces us to Lister's contemporaries-some of them brilliant, some outright criminal-and leads us through the grimy schools and squalid hospitals where they learned their art, the dead houses where they studied, and the cemeteries they 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.

I det 19. århundrede var operationer ikke for de sarte. Datidenskirurger arbejdede under primitive uhygiejniske forhold udenbedøvelse. En god kirurg skulle først og fremmest være stærk oghurtig med sit værktøj. Det krævede styrke og held at overleve enoperation, men dermed var trængslerne ikke forbi. Tiden efterindgrebet var ofte farligere end den sygdom eller de skader, patienten oprindeligt led under. Aggressive infektioner gjorde nemlig dødeligheden blandt de nyopererede alarmerende høj. En ung melankolsk kirurg, Joseph Lister, løste mysteriet om desinfektion og ændrede historiens gang. Listers metoder forandrede kirurgien fra at være et brutalt og primitivt håndværk til at være en moderne videnskab – og reddede samtidig hundredtusindvis af menneskeliv."Den britiske videnskabsforfatter Fitzharris fortælleret stykke medicinsk historie med denne fremragendebiografi om Joseph Lister, 1800-tallets store heltinden for kirurgiens udvikling."Publishers WeeklyLINDSEY FITZHARRIS tog sin ph.d. ividenskabshistorie og medicin på Oxforduniversitet. Hun skabte den populærewebside The Chirurgeon‘s Apprentice oger medforfatter og programvært påYouTube-serien Under the Knife.Hun har skrevet for The Guardian,The Huffington Post, The Lancet og NewScientist.