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Summary of Lindsey Fitzharris's The Facemaker
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Lindsey Fitzharris's The Facemaker During World War I, the trenches became breeding grounds for unprecedented facial injuries. In The Facemaker (2022), award-winning author Lindsey Fitzharris recounts the story of Harold Gillies, a pioneering surgeon who transformed the lives of soldiers disfigured in battle. Gillies established a dedicated hospital for reconstructive surgery in Britain. He and his team developed ingenious techniques to rebuild shattered faces. Operating at a time when severe disfigurement carried profound social stigma, Gillies restored not only physical appearance but also the dignity and spirits of wounded men. His groundbreaking work laid the essential foundations for the modern field of plastic surgery.
Summary of Lindsey Fitzharris's The Facemaker
Author: Everest Media,
language: en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date: 2022-07-22T22:59:00Z
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In 1913, London was a far more commanding presence in the world than it would be on the cusp of the Second World War. With over seven million people living in London, it was larger than the municipalities of Paris, Vienna, and St. Petersburg combined. #2 Gillies was a high achiever who had always been able to achieve whatever he set his mind to. He was a man who had been born with a mysterious gift for talent, which he had inherited rather than worked for. #3 Gillies had a rebellious spirit, but he was also very likable. He had a love of rules and boundaries, and he was eminently likable. He was also very popular, and earned the nickname Giles because of it. #4 Gillies was extremely skilled at surgery, and he was also extremely driven. He had vowed never to marry a nurse, but he fell in love with Kathleen Jackson, a nurse at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and married her six months after they met.
The Facemaker
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Books of the Year, Guardian The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero's welcome they deserved. In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. 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 in Sidcup, south-east England. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of doctors, nurses and artists whose task was to recreate what had been torn apart. 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. Meticulously researched and grippingly told, The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the poignant stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine and art can merge, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.