Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations by Arnold van de Laar

Through dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his experience and expertise to tell an incisive history of the past, present and future of surgery. Via obese popes, electric eels, assassination attempts, Einstein's impossible aneurysm and Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife takes us on an unforgettable journey through our bodies when things go wrong. It is both a rich cultural history, and a modern anatomy class for us all.

Paperback
Publisher: John Murray Press
Number of pages: 368
ISBN: 9781473633681