03060cam a2200349 i 4500 569141085 TxAuBib 20220914120000.0 220131s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021060843 9780374282301 HRD 30.00 0374282307 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Fitzharris, Lindsey, author. The facemaker [BOOK] : a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I / Lindsey Fitzharris. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. xii, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-294) 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. From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: humankind’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. The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such an individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care. Gillies, 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 a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. Provided by publisher. 20220914. Gillies, H. D Harold Delf 1882-1960. Plastic surgeons Great Britain Biography. Surgery, Plastic History 20th century. Disabled veterans Rehabilitation Great Britain History 20th century. Disfigured persons Treatment Great Britain History 20th century. World War, 1914-1918 Medical care Great Britain.