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Author Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author.

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

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2217500~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  617.092 FIT    AVAILABLE
 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  617.092 FIT    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  617.092 FIT    AVAILABLE
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Description xii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Prologue: "An unlovely object" -- The ballerina's rump -- The silver ghost -- Special duty -- 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 -- Epilogue: Cutting a path.
Summary "A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-294) and index.
Subject Gillies, H. D. (Harold Delf), 1882-1960.
Plastic surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Surgery, Plastic -- History -- 20th century.
Disabled veterans -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Disfigured persons -- Treatment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Great Britain.
ISBN 9780374282301 (hardcover)
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