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The Facemaker A Visionary Surgeons Battle To Mend The Disfigured Soldiers Of World War I Lindsey Fitzharris

Name: The Facemaker A Visionary Surgeons Battle To Mend The Disfigured Soldiers Of World War I Lindsey Fitzharris
SKU: BELL-43473248
Price: 31.00 USD
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Rating: 4.1 (30 reviews)

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The Facemaker A Visionary Surgeons Battle To Mend The Disfigured Soldiers Of World War I Lindsey Fitzharris instant download after payment.

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

File Extension: PDF

File size: 19.59 MB

Pages: 336

Author: Lindsey Fitzharris

ISBN: 9780374282301, 0374282307

Language: English

Year: 2022

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The Facemaker A Visionary Surgeons Battle To Mend The Disfigured Soldiers Of World War I Lindsey Fitzharris by Lindsey Fitzharris 9780374282301, 0374282307 instant download after payment.

From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero's welcome they deserved.
In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction in Sidcup, south-east England. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of doctors, nurses and artists whose task was to recreate what had been torn apart. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits.
Meticulously researched and grippingly told, The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the poignant stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine and art can merge, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.