The facemaker a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I / Lindsey Fitzharris.

• Prologue: "An unlovely object" -- The ballerina's rump -- The silver ghost -- Inspiration -- A strange new art -- The chamber of horrors -- The mirrorless ward -- Tin noses and steel hearts -- The miracle workers -- The boys on blue benches -- Percy -- Heroic failures -- Against all odds -- All that glitters. 
• "A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI" 

Ämnesord

Plastikkirurgi  (sao)

Krigsinvalider  (sao)

Krigsskador  (sao)

Krigskirurgi  (sao)

Plastic surgeons  -- Great Britain -- Biography. (LCSH)

Surgery, Plastic  -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Disabled veterans  -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Disfigured persons  -- Treatment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

World War, 1914-1918  -- Medical care -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Surgery, Military  (LCSH)

War wounds  (LCSH)

Disabled veterans  (LCSH)

Surgery, Plastic  (LCSH)

1939-1945 (andra världskriget)  (sao)

Personnamn

Gillies, H. D (Harold Delf), 1882-1960.

Klassifikation

RD27.35.G555 (LCC)

617.092 (DDC)

Vf:k (kssb/8 (machine generated))