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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. Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. ©2022 Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Sayner adult nonfiction 617.09 FIT AVAILABLE Superior adult nonfiction 617.09 F577f AVAILABLE Edition First edition. Descript xii, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm Bibliog. 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. Subject 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 Britain. Genre Biographies. ISBN/ISSN 9780374282301 (hardcover) 0374282307 (hardcover)
