The Facemaker
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe
poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of
the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in
the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the first machine
gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's
military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities.
The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter
on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare,
thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances
meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet
disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero's welcome they
deserved.In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey
Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic
surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the
faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. Gillies, a
Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent
field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on
the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's
first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction in
Sidcup, south-east England.There, Gillies assembled a unique group
of doctors, nurses and artists whose task was to recreate what had
been torn apart. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a
hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely
intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of
the wounded but also their spirits. Meticulously researched and
grippingly told, The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical
innovations alongside the poignant stories of soldiers whose lives
were wrecked and repaired.The result is a vivid account of how
medicine and art can merge, and of what courage and imagination can
accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.
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Penguin Books ,
Lindsey Fitzharris
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Penguin Books,
Lindsey Fitzharris
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