Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris

5 reviews

readwithmarie23's review

dark emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Moderate: Mental illness and Grief

Minor: Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Medical trauma

pardonmylord's review

informative medium-paced

4.5

While I love the book, I do think there was something lost in audiobook vs physical book, but I liked it so much I’d be interested in seeing the physical book and flipping through it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, War, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Violence, Gore, Gun violence, and Grief

Minor: Death and Fire/Fire injury

lady_bountiful's review

3.5

Gets repetitive 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, Body horror, and Body shaming

jhbandcats's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

An extraordinary history of the doctor who perfected plastic surgery and facial reconstruction on WWI soldiers whose faces had been destroyed. Dr Harold Gillies didn’t know much about facial reconstruction when he first began trying to save patients from a lifetime of isolation and depression caused by the stigma of facial disfigurement. He came to pioneer new methods of surgery that not only saved soldiers’ physical lives but their emotional lives as well. 

For soldiers with mangled faces whose fiancées left them or whose children ran away screaming in terror, Dr Gillies was a savior. He suffered many failures as he was learning along the way but they were outstripped by his successes. He went on to perform facial reconstruction in WWII, working in private practice in times of peace. His two books on plastic surgery of the face are still valuable. 

Lindsey Fitzharris gives an overview of the wartime medical complex on the Continent and its expansion to England, and shows how Gillies continued to grow his knowledge as he did all he could to return his patients to lives as normal as possible. An excellent medical history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Death

mscalls's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Vomit, and War