Full name: Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

Author: Arnold van de Laar Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Science, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781529353402 9781250200105 1250200105

In Under the Knife, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the witty history of the past, present and future of surgery. 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 all kinds of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating theatre. 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? From the dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, Under the Knife is both a rich cultural history, and a modern anatomy class for us all. Similar books: The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth by Thomas Morris The Century of the Surgeon by Jurgen Thorwald The Knife Man by Wendy Moore Dr. Mutter's Marvels by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Quackery by Lydia Kang Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager Complications by Atul Gawande Doctors by Sherwin B. Nuland Influenza by Jeremy Brown Blood & Guts by Roy Porter The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu The Family That Couldn't Sleep by D. T. Max The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert