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100	1		_aFitzharris, Lindsey,
245	1	4	_aThe facemaker : _bone surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I / _cLindsey Fitzharris.
260			_aDublin : _bPenguin Books, _c2023.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPrologue: "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.
520			_a"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.
600	1	0	_aGillies, H. D. _q(Harold Delf), _d1882-1960.
600	1	7	_aGillies, H. D. _q(Harold Delf), _d1882-1960. _2fast
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast
650		0	_aPlastic surgeons _zGreat Britain _vBiography.
650		0	_aSurgery, Plastic _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDisabled veterans _xRehabilitation _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDisfigured persons _xTreatment _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xMedical care _zGreat Britain.
650	1	2	_aSurgeons
650	2	2	_aSurgery, Plastic _xhistory
650	2	2	_aVeterans _xhistory
650	2	2	_aDisabled Persons _xrehabilitation
650	2	2	_aDisabled Persons _xhistory
650	2	2	_aFacial Injuries _xrehabiliation
650	2	2	_aFacial Injuries _xhistory
650	2	2	_aHistory, 20th Century
650	2	2	_aWorld War II
650		6	_aChirurgiens plasticiens _zGrande-Bretagne _vBiographies.
650		6	_aChirurgie plastique _xHistoire _y20e siècle.
650		6	_aInvalides de guerre _xRéadaptation _zGrande-Bretagne _xHistoire _y20e siècle.
650		6	_aGuerre mondiale, 1914-1918 _xSoins médicaux _zGrande-Bretagne.
650		6	_aPersonnes défigurées _xTraitement _zGrande-Bretagne _xHistoire _y20e siècle.
650		7	_aMEDICAL / Surgery / General.
650		7	_aDisabled veterans _xRehabilitation.
650		7	_aMedical care.
650		7	_aPlastic surgeons.
650		7	_aSurgery, Plastic.
651		2	_aUnited Kingdom
651		7	_aGreat Britain. _2fast
655		0	_aBiography.
655		2	_aBiography
655		7	_aBiographies. _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast
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