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Baron Lister, Joseph 1827-1912 Barry, James 1795-1865 Juvenile literature BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious Male impersonators England Biography Juvenile literature RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies Surgeons Great Britain Biography Surgeons Great Britain Biography Juvenile literature Surgery Great Britain History 19th century Women physicians England Biography Juvenile literatureFitzharris, Lindsey
Summary: "A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILLIES, H.D. FITMoore, Wendy
Summary: "The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I-and who transformed medicine in the process. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 MOODillon, Michael
Summary: "Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self : A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DILLON, MICHAEL DILFitzharris, Lindsey
Summary: A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine, describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LISTER, JOSEPH FITRobinson, Lisa
Summary: "A picture book biography that tells the story of Dr. James Barry, born female, who lived as a man from age 18 to his death"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020