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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Avery Pub Group
Publication date
September 4, 2014
Pages
371
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781592408702
ISBN-10
1592408702
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
1.35 lbs.
Original list price
$27.50
Subjects
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The Sick Rose | Strange Medicine | Extreme Medicine | Morbid Curiosities | Mutter Museum | Extreme Medicine | The Secret | The Man Who Touched His Own Heart | Silent Witnesses
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the countryâs most famous museum of medical oddities
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Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his toolsâor even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Although he died at just forty-eight, Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time.
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Brilliant, outspoken, and brazenly handsome, Mütter was flamboyant in every aspect of his life. He wore pink silk suits to perform surgery, added an umlaut to his last name just because he could, and amassed an immense collection of medical oddities that would later form the basis of Philadelphiaâs Mütter Museum.
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Award-winning writer Cristin OâKeefe Aptowicz vividly chronicles how Mütterâs efforts helped establish Philadelphia as a global mecca for medical innovationâdespite intense resistance from his numerous rivals. (Foremost among them: Charles D. Meigs, an influential obstetrician who loathed Mütterâs "overly" modern medical opinions.) In the narrative spirit of The Devil in the White City, Dr. Mütterâs Marvels interweaves an eye-opening portrait of nineteenth-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the "P. T. Barnum of the surgery room."
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Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his toolsâor even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century.
Â
Although he died at just forty-eight, Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time.
Â
Brilliant, outspoken, and brazenly handsome, Mütter was flamboyant in every aspect of his life. He wore pink silk suits to perform surgery, added an umlaut to his last name just because he could, and amassed an immense collection of medical oddities that would later form the basis of Philadelphiaâs Mütter Museum.
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Award-winning writer Cristin OâKeefe Aptowicz vividly chronicles how Mütterâs efforts helped establish Philadelphia as a global mecca for medical innovationâdespite intense resistance from his numerous rivals. (Foremost among them: Charles D. Meigs, an influential obstetrician who loathed Mütterâs "overly" modern medical opinions.) In the narrative spirit of The Devil in the White City, Dr. Mütterâs Marvels interweaves an eye-opening portrait of nineteenth-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the "P. T. Barnum of the surgery room."
Editions
Hardcover
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from Avery Pub Group (September 4, 2014)
9781592408702 | details & prices | 371 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $27.50
About: A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the countryâs most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his toolsâor even wash his hands.
About: A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the countryâs most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his toolsâor even wash his hands.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Avery Pub Group (September 8, 2015)
9781592409259 | details & prices | 371 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.02 lbs | List price $17.00
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