Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations by Arnold van de Laar
Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

Arnold van de Laar

Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

Arnold van de Laar

368 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction health history dark emotional reflective medium-paced
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Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations--from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century ...

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hopeful 7%
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