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The butchering art: Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
2017·286 pages
A gripping nonfiction history of Joseph Lister’s fight to introduce antiseptic surgery amid the gore of Victorian operating theaters.
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A gripping nonfiction history of Joseph Lister’s fight to introduce antiseptic surgery amid the gore of Victorian operating theaters.
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A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine, describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content present
Violence & gore
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Graphic surgeries, amputations, gangrene, pus, and decaying bodies throughout
Profanity
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Substance use
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Medical use of chloroform and ether as surgical anesthetics
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Lister’s Quaker faith referenced as part of his background
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Medical establishment politics and resistance to scientific reform
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Patients endure severe suffering from crude operations and infections
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