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Les gueules cassées / Martin Monestier ; préface Jean Miné ; introduction, Xavier Tabbagh.

148 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 33 cm

Dolor y belleza : Gaspare Tagliacozzi, cirujano del Renacimiento = Pain and beauty : Gaspare Tagliacozzi, surgeon of the Renaissance / texto, Fernando Ortiz Monasterio ; fotografía, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.

320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Blood and guts : a history of surgery / Richard Hollingham ; foreword by Michael Mosley.

Reconstructing the body : classicism, modernism, and the First World War / Ana Carden-Coyne.

262 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 26 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in)

Reconstructing faces : the art and wartime surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe, and Mowlem / Murray C. Meikle.

Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities

Dubious equalities and embodied differences : cultural studies on cosmetic surgery / Kathy Davis.

Krieg in der Geschichte

380 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Beschädigte Helden : Kriegsinvalidität und Körperbilder 1914-1923 / Sabine Kienitz.

"In Another Way of Thinking the reader is introduced to Julius Szymanowski (1829-1868). Being born in Riga in a family of impoverished Polish nobility, Szymanowski nethertheless got an excellent education in Reval (Tallinn) and a medical and surgical training at the famous university of Dorpat (Tartu). At the age of 29 he became professor extraordinarius in Helsingfors (Helsinki) and a few years later professor at the St Vladimir University in Kiev. The highlight of the numerous publications of multitalented Szymanowski is the book Operations on the surface of the human body (1865), in which he introduced conceptual thinking in plastic reconstructive surgery."--From cover.

224 pages : illustrations, maps (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm

Another way of thinking : the life and works of Julius Szymanowski, the real father of plastic reconstructive surgery / Klaas Marck.

Catalogue of rare, illustrated books and photographs on medicial and scientific themes. Includes photographs of reconstructive surgery, mentally ill people and a hypnotized woman.

52 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 18 cm

Livres anciens : la science et l'image : photographies anciennes, gravures, dessins / Rodolphe Chamonal.

The third in a 5-part series in which Michael Mosley traces the evolution of surgery as it progressed, in his words, from butchery to brilliance. This part features plastic surgery. Mosley travels back in time to India 500-600 years ago where plastic surgery was first used to repair an unfaithful woman's nose. In 16th century Bologna, Gaspare Tagliacozzi developed a technique in which skin from the arm could be transplanted onto noses destroyed by syphilis; Mosley undergoes an imaginary nasal reconstruction from this period. Until the 19th century all plastic surgery was reconstructive, but in the mid-19th century cosmetic surgery appeared. One of the earliest techniques was to inject liquid paraffin into the area to be changed, then moulded while still warm, then finally allowed to dry, however the wax did not stay in place but moved around and often led to open sores in the face - a condition that became known as paraffinoma or wax cancer. Mosley tries out the modern equivalent - botox. During the 1st world war 2000 000 men came home with serious injuries, many of which involved the face; the work of both Harold Gillies and Archibald McIndoe is covered in detail. Gillies went on to become a very famous Harley Street cosmetic surgeon who performed the first sexual reassignment surgery. We see, in comparison, present day surgery to replace a woman's jaw bone and the possibility ofwhole facial transplants is discussed.

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Les gueules cassées / Martin Monestier ; préface Jean Miné ; introduction, Xavier Tabbagh.

Dolor y belleza : Gaspare Tagliacozzi, cirujano del Renacimiento = Pain and beauty : Gaspare Tagliacozzi, surgeon of the Renaissance / texto, Fernando Ortiz Monasterio ; fotografía, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.

Blood and guts : a history of surgery / Richard Hollingham ; foreword by Michael Mosley.

Reconstructing the body : classicism, modernism, and the First World War / Ana Carden-Coyne.

Reconstructing faces : the art and wartime surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe, and Mowlem / Murray C. Meikle.

Dubious equalities and embodied differences : cultural studies on cosmetic surgery / Kathy Davis.

Beschädigte Helden : Kriegsinvalidität und Körperbilder 1914-1923 / Sabine Kienitz.

Another way of thinking : the life and works of Julius Szymanowski, the real father of plastic reconstructive surgery / Klaas Marck.

Livres anciens : la science et l'image : photographies anciennes, gravures, dessins / Rodolphe Chamonal.

Blood and guts: a history of surgery. Part 4, Fixing faces.

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Les gueules cassées / Martin Monestier ; préface Jean Miné ; introduction, Xavier Tabbagh.

Dolor y belleza : Gaspare Tagliacozzi, cirujano del Renacimiento = Pain and beauty : Gaspare Tagliacozzi, surgeon of the Renaissance / texto, Fernando Ortiz Monasterio ; fotografía, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.

Blood and guts : a history of surgery / Richard Hollingham ; foreword by Michael Mosley.

Reconstructing the body : classicism, modernism, and the First World War / Ana Carden-Coyne.

Reconstructing faces : the art and wartime surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe, and Mowlem / Murray C. Meikle.

Dubious equalities and embodied differences : cultural studies on cosmetic surgery / Kathy Davis.

Beschädigte Helden : Kriegsinvalidität und Körperbilder 1914-1923 / Sabine Kienitz.

Another way of thinking : the life and works of Julius Szymanowski, the real father of plastic reconstructive surgery / Klaas Marck.

Livres anciens : la science et l'image : photographies anciennes, gravures, dessins / Rodolphe Chamonal.

Blood and guts: a history of surgery. Part 4, Fixing faces.

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