Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery Audiobook (Free)

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are building limb transplants, face transplants, and a bunch of additional previously undreamed-of procedures possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Bloodstream and Guts, veteran research article writer Richard Hollingham weaves a convincing narrative from the key moments in operative history. We’ve a ringside seat in the operating theater of School College Hospital in London as world-renowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs an extraordinary amputation in thirty seconds-from 1st cut to last stitch. Innovations such as Joseph Lister’s antiseptic technique, the first open-heart surgery, and Walter Freeman’s lobotomy functions, among other breakthroughs, are taken to existence in vivid fine detail. This is well-known science composing at its best.