The facemaker : a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I / Lindsey Fitzharris.
By: Fitzharris, Lindsey [author.].
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2022Edition: First edition.Description: 315 pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780374282301.Subject(s): Gillies, H. D. (Harold Delf), 1882-1960 | 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 BritainGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI"--