Lindsey Fitzharris | |
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| Occupation | Author, medical historian, television host |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Subject | History of medicine |
| Years active | 2017 – Present |
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Lindsey Fitzharris (born 1982 [1] ) is an American author, medical historian, and television host. She is the creator of the blog The Chirurgeon's Apprentice, and the writer and host of the Smithsonian Channel TV series The Curious Life and Death of.... She is a resident of the United Kingdom. [2]
Fitzharris holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology, received from the University of Oxford in 2009. [3] She was awarded a postdoctoral award from the Wellcome Trust in 2010.
In 2017, she published The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine , a biography of surgical pioneer Joseph Lister. [4] The book won the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, [5] and was named an American Library Association Notable Nonfiction book for 2018. [6] The book was also shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize [7] and Wolfson History Prize [8] in the United Kingdom that same year. To date, The Butchering Art has been translated into fourteen languages.[ citation needed ]
Fitzharris has written for publications such as The Wall Street Journal , [9] The Guardian , [10] Scientific American , [11] and New Scientist . [12] In March 2019, Fitzharris appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience . [13] Her interview was #1 on Chartable, with millions of downloads in the first week.[ citation needed ]
Fitzharris is also the writer and host of the television series, The Curious Life and Death of... , [14] which premiered on the Smithsonian Channel in 2020.
Her second book, The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I, about plastic surgery pioneer Harold Gillies, was released in 2022. [15] The audiobook for The Facemaker was narrated by the actor Daniel Gillies, the great, great nephew of Sir Harold Gillies. [16]
She appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity in October 2019. Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "A cemetery gun". [17]
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine is a 2017 historical nonfiction book by Lindsey Fitzharris that discusses the evolution of Victorian-era medicine between the 1840s and 1870s, along with how surgeon Joseph Lister revolutionized the practice of surgery to reduce the extremely high death rates of the time period. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 17, 2017, the book includes graphic descriptions of operating theaters and the unclean conditions of hospitals and other facilities at the time. The book was given the 2018 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and was shortlisted for both the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and the 2018 Wolfson History Prize.
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