Under The Knife

Author: Arnold van de Laar

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  • : 32.99 AUD
  • : 9781473633667
  • : Hodder & Stoughton
  • : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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  • : November 2017
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 32.99
  • : January 2018
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  • : Arnold van de Laar
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9781473633667
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Description

In Under the Knife, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the witty history of the past, present and future of surgery. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers all kinds of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating theatre.

Reviews

[A] fascinating history of surgery . . . eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering . . . a book that invites readers to peer up the bottoms of kings, into the souls of rock stars and down the ear canals of astronauts -- Helen Brown * The Daily Telegraph, 5* review * Irresistible . . . Van de Laar renders complex surgical procedures not only understandable, but also immensely entertaining . . . A lot of fun * The Times * Utterly eccentric and riveting * Mail on Sunday * This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody . . . A fascinating combination of art, medical science and - still - daring butchery * The Sunday Times *