TY - BOOK AU - Fitzharris,Lindsey TI - The facemaker: one surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I SN - 9780141990293 U1 - 617.520592 23 PY - 2023/// CY - Dublin PB - Penguin Books, KW - Gillies, H. D. KW - Plastic surgeons KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Surgery, Plastic KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Disabled veterans KW - Rehabilitation KW - Disfigured persons KW - Treatment KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Medical care KW - Surgeons KW - history KW - Veterans KW - Disabled Persons KW - rehabilitation KW - Facial Injuries KW - rehabiliation KW - History, 20th Century KW - World War II KW - Chirurgiens plasticiens KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Biographies KW - Chirurgie plastique KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Invalides de guerre KW - Réadaptation KW - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 KW - Soins médicaux KW - Personnes défigurées KW - Traitement KW - MEDICAL / Surgery / General KW - United Kingdom KW - fast KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. Lindsey Fitzharris's The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such and individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gilles, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care. Gilles, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose task was to rebuild what had been torn apart, to re-create what had been destroyed. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero but losing a face made him a monster to society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine can be an art, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror."--Front jacket flap ER -