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Author Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author.

Title The facemaker : a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I / Lindsey Fitzharris.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  617.092 Fit    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 315 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: "An unlovely object" -- The ballerina's rump -- The silver ghost -- Inspiration -- A strange new art -- The chamber of horrors -- The mirrorless ward -- Tin noses and steel hearts -- The miracle workers -- The boys on blue benches -- Percy -- Heroic failures -- Against all odds -- All that glitters.
Summary "A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note 1 2 5 15
Subject Gillies, H. D. (Harold Delf), 1882-1960.
Gillies, H. D. (Harold Delf), 1882-1960. (OCoLC)fst00142587
World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Subject Plastic surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Surgery, Plastic -- History -- 20th century.
Disabled veterans -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Disfigured persons -- Treatment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Great Britain.
MEDICAL / Surgery / General.
Disabled veterans -- Rehabilitation. (OCoLC)fst00894663
Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
Plastic surgeons. (OCoLC)fst01066518
Surgery, Plastic. (OCoLC)fst01139417
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780374282301 30.00
0374282307 30.00

 
    
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