The facemaker : a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I

Summary: "A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780374282301 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xii, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.