Crucial Interventions

Name: Crucial Interventions
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9780500518106
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An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery.

By Richard Barnett

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Crucial Interventions explores the radical transformation of surgery during the 19th century. It features a captivating collection of rare surgical textbooks and extraordinary illustrations from the Wellcome Collection, showcasing detailed surgical techniques, medical instruments, and vivid depictions of operations. Accompanied by Richard Barnett's authoritative and inspiring narrative, this volume offers a fascinating journey through medical history from head to toe.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in medical history, surgery, and historical medical illustration, as well as those who appreciate detailed, visually rich accounts of 19th-century health practices.

The nineteenth century saw a complete transformation of the practice and reputation of surgery. This book follows its increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing from the examples of surgical textbooks with a focus on the extraordinary visual materials of the mid-nineteenth century.

A startling look at the golden age of surgery through gruesome yet beautiful technical illustrations and paintings from the Wellcome Collection, written by the bestselling author of The Sick Rose

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The 19th century witnessed a complete transformation in the practice and reputation of surgery. Crucial Interventions is a fascinating book that follows surgery's increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing on the very best examples of rare surgical textbooks, with a focus on the extraordinary visual materials held by the Wellcome Collection.

Unnerving and graphic, yet beautifully rendered, these captivating illustrations include step-by-step surgical techniques paired with medical instruments and painted depictions of operations in progress. Arranged for the layman from head to toe, and accompanied by an authoritative, eloquent, and inspiring narrative from medical historian Richard Barnett, this is an engrossing and enlightening volume.

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British Journal of Hospital Medicine praises the book for its "extraordinary array of illustrations" and recommends it to all lovers of medical history.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500518106

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 October 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 950g

Pages: 256

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Richard Barnett

About the Author

Richard Barnett studied medicine before becoming a historian. His writing has appeared in The Lancet, The London Magazine and The Natural Death Handbook. His first book, Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures, was published in 2008 and was a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. His second book, The Sick Rose, published by Thames & Hudson, was the winner of The British Book Design and Production Awards. Richard has also appeared on BBC4's 'The Beauty of Anatomy'. He is currently Director of studies in History, Pembroke-King's Programme, University of Cambridge and Honorary Research Fellow, UCL.

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