Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
- ISBN-10
- 1250200091
- ISBN-13
- 9781250200099
- Series
- Under the Knife
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-10-02
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Author
- Arnold van de Laar
Description
Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations—from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers a wealth of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating room. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a bacterium, a cancer cell or a bullet? And, as medical advances continuously push the boundaries of what medicine can cure, what are the limits of surgery? With stories spanning the dark centuries of bloodletting and amputations without anaesthetic through today's sterile, high-tech operating rooms, Under the Knife is both a rich cultural history, and a modern anatomy class for us all.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2020-06-26
- - pages
- Paperback
- Temple University Press
Similar books
-
Under the Knife
By Tess GerritsenUnder The Knife by Tess Gerritsen released on Sep 22, 2000 is available now for purchase.
-
Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health
By Working Group for Health Beyond CapitalismDisobedience : doctor workers unite! / Howard Waitzkin -- Becoming employees : the deprofessionalization and emerging social class position of health professionals / Matt Anderson -- The degradation of medical labor and the meaning of ...
-
Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery
By Ann G. DallyA disturbing and extraordinary history of how modern surgery developed through experiments on women.
-
The Knife
By Ross RitchellIt's hot and getting hotter this summer in Afghanipakiraqistan - the preferred name for the ambiguous stretch of the world where the U.S. Special Forces operate with little outside attention.
-
Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South
By Hugh PearsonHugh Pearson grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, encouraged by his parents to believe that nothing was beyond his reach. If he needed any further inspiration, he could look to...
-
Under the Knife
By Krista Franklin"Part memoir, part treatise, part collage and experiment, Krista Franklin's Under the Knife is an excavation; a dig at the sites of the construction and demolition of the poet/artist's selves."--The publisher
-
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
By Wendy MooreThis is a fascinating portrait of a remarkable pioneer and his determined struggle to haul surgery out of the realms of meaningless superstitious ritual and into the dawn of modern medicine.
-
Slash: Paper Under the Knife
By David Revere McFadden-A survey of contemporary artists who use cut paper - from small-scale intricate cuttings to monumental architectural interventions and sculpture - as an art form Eclectic, eccentric and tirelessly innovative,...
-
Surgeon Under the Knife
By William A. NolenSurgeon Under the Knife
-
Doing Harm
By Kelly ParsonsBotching a major surgery when his ambition for a prestigious job gets the better of him, Steve Mitchell learns that a patient who died under mysterious circumstances was targeted by a sociopath who holds information capable of destroying ...