Book Discussion: The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris In-Person
Historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters―no place for the squeamish―and surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than patients’ afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn’t have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the riddle and change the course of history.
- Date:
- Monday, October 28, 2024
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Library Program Room
- Sandusky Library:
- Sandusky Library
- Audience:
- Adults Seniors
- Categories:
- Book Discussion