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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
30 reviews
julied's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical content
selfsoulfriend's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal cruelty
fwee's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Gore, Medical content, and Medical trauma
bronbaewr's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Child death, Gore, Sexual violence, and Excrement
Minor: Ableism
hanarama's review against another edition
4.0
Fitzharris provides a lot of historical insight into Victorian medical practices, highlighting how gruesome and ineffectual they often were before germ theory was fully accepted and understood. She presents the narrative in an interesting and easy to follow manner, giving the reader enough background to understand Lister's impact without bogging down the biographical aspects.
I wonder if there was some information left out of the narrative though. It's well known now that racial minorities and women were often treated with experimental procedures against their will. The book doesn't make it clear if Lister also did this, though he was known to have better bedside manner and empathy towards his patients for the time. I would have liked for this topic to have been explored more so that we could see how Lister fit into this terrible aspect of medical history.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, and Blood
friedrice's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, and Medical content
haley_cat's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical content
abreadtheif's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma
Moderate: Death, Violence, and Vomit
brandonlicata's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder
mandkips's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Gore, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness