The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

by Lindsey Fitzharris

Book Overview

Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly
A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian

"Warning: She spares no detail!" --Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake

In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374537968
• ISBN13: 9780374537968
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Scientific American
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"