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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
30 reviews
ceredonia's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
chuckbuckle's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Medical content
beepbeep101's review against another edition
5.0
Her writing reads, if not like fiction, as smoothly as a novel in most places. I grew up hearing medical terms around the dinner table, as my dad is a family physician, so I may have a head start on other readers - but there were few times that I had to stop to re-read a section or look up a term. Fitzharris defines concepts well for the layman. Most of the times I had to re-read anything were quotes using antiquated jargon.
I remember learning about pasteurization in school, and I, as many today, take for granted all of the antiseptic steps we go through today with even just treating scrapes. But learning about the process we went through to get there and about the lives of these individuals brings so much more perspective! I knew roughly the timeline for transitioning from miasma to germ theory, but reading in more detail about how we figured it out and the reactions of the medical community is fascinating and just….awe-inspiring.
Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Classism
erinsampson91's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma
sfenstermacher's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Medical content
tblobitz's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic
strawberry_fox's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content
sharkgirl45's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Gore, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
kilonshele's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Medical content
nicolesbookreviews's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail