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Lindsey Fitzharris

リンジー・フィッツハリス

Rinjī Fitzuharisu

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1982
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Resident of the United Kingdom

Career

Occupations
Author, medical historian, television host
Active Years
2017-2024
Affiliations
Wellcome Trust, Smithsonian Channel
Nominations
Wellcome Book Prize shortlist (2018), Wolfson History Prize shortlist (2018)

Education

University of Oxford
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
Degree: Ph.D.
Year of Graduation: 2009
Country: United Kingdom

Awards

PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
2018
Work: The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Organization: PEN America
Result: 受賞
American Library Association Notable Nonfiction book
2018
Work: The Butchering Art
Organization: American Library Association
Result: 選出

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

2017 History of medicine

A biography of surgical pioneer Joseph Lister and his quest to transform Victorian medicine.

Antiseptic surgerySurgical revolutionMedical history
Translations
  • Translated into fourteen languages

Bibliography

  • The Butchering Art (2017)
  • The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (2022)