Details
Blood and Guts
A History of Surgery
11,99 € |
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Verlag: | BBC |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 02.12.2008 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781407024530 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 320 |
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Beschreibungen
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of selfless men working tirelessly in the pursuit of medical advancement. Instead it's a bloodstained tale of blunders, arrogance, mishap and murder. In trying to keep us alive, surgeons have all too often killed us off, and life-saving solutions have often come from the most surprising places. Accompanying a BBC series, Blood and Guts is an incredible story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients - and every now and then courageous advances that have saved the lives of millions around the world.You may think twice before going under the knife...