by Jürgen Thorwald · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422681243
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«El siglo de los cirujanos» is the historical essay by Jürgen Thorwald, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (100 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative begins with the first painless operation under anaesthesia in 1846 and follows surgeon Henry Steven Hartmann on a journey through hospitals around the world. From his grandfather's memoirs, Jürgen Thorwald recounts how nineteenth-century surgery left suffering behind, tested new techniques and cemented modern medicine.
Work originally published in German in 1956 as «Das Jahrhundert der Chirurgen». First instalment of the series «The Century of the Surgeon».
A reading suitable for the general public curious about the history of medicine and also for healthcare professionals interested in its origins.
Jürgen Thorwald was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II.
