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Author Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author.

Title The facemaker : a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I / Lindsey Fitzharris.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  617.092 FITZHARRIS    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  617.092 FITZHARRIS    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  BIOG. GILLIES, H.    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  617.092 FITZHARRIS    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  617.092 FITZHARRIS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  617.092 GILLIES    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  617.092 FITZHARRIS, LINDSEY    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  617.092 FIT    DUE 04-30-24
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B GILLIES H    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  617.092 FITZHARRIS    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xii, 315 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-294) and index.
Contents Prologue: "An unlovely object" -- The ballerina's rump -- The silver ghost -- Inspiration -- 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.
Summary "A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject 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.
MEDICAL / Surgery / General.
Gillies, H. D. (Harold Delf), 1882-1960. (OCoLC)fst00142587
Disabled veterans -- Rehabilitation. (OCoLC)fst00894663
Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
Plastic surgeons. (OCoLC)fst01066518
Surgery, Plastic. (OCoLC)fst01139417
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780374282301 (hardcover)
0374282307 (hardcover)
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