Episode #1272
Lindsey Fitzharris
Books mentioned
The Butchering Art
Mentioned by Lindsey Fitzharris · at 00:01:30
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Medical historian and author Lindsey Fitzharris examines Victorian surgery, Joseph Lister’s development of antiseptic methods, and the era’s graphic but evolving medical practices. She also discusses body snatchers, dissection, unusual devices, mummy research, plague doctors, plastic surgery, public fascination with anatomy, and how social media shapes modern body image.
What they talked about
- Victorian amputation saw failure
- Joseph Lister and germ theory
- % mortality rate operation
- Pre-anesthesia surgery horrors
- Barber-surgeons and bloodletting
- Body snatching for dissection
- Victorian anti-masturbation devices
- Syphilis and powdered wigs
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