Astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other cutting edge operations possible. But getting to this point has been an extraordinary story of bravery and mistakes - stolen corpses, crazy remedies, medical fraud, lobotomized patients - and every now and then, brave and extraordinary advances that have saved millions of lives across the world.
With a huge range of locations from the US to France, Germany and Italy, Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery shows us the latest surgical techniques, giving greater understanding of the body, and revealing how science progressed through catastrophes as well as successes in the courageous pursuit of knowledge.
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