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The Butchering Art

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Butchering Art

By Lindsey Fitzharris

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About the book

DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson PrizeThe story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world - the safest time to be alive in human historyIn The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Li...Show more

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9780141983387

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

The Butchering Art

Format

Paperback

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