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UNDER THE KNIFE - ARNOLD VAN DE LAAR KARTONIERT...

This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft  incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The
Sunday Times  'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday   'Eye-opening and  frequently 
eye-watering . . . a book that invites readers to peer up the bottoms of kings  into the souls
of rock stars and down the ear canals of astronauts' The Daily Telegraph  How did a decision
made in the operating theatre spark hundreds of conspiracy theories about JFK?  How did a
backstage joke prove fatal to world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini?  How did Queen Victoria
change the course of surgical history?  Through dark centuries of bloodletting and of
amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile  high-tech operating theatres  surgeon
Arnold van de Laar uses his experience and expertise to tell an incisive history of the past 
present and future of surgery. From the dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations
without anaesthetic to today's sterile  high-tech operating theatres  Under the Knife is both a
rich cultural history  and a modern anatomy class for us all.

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