Lindsey Fitzharris’s Followers (322)

More followers…

Lindsey Fitzharris

edit data

As a little girl, I used to drag my grandmother from cemetery to cemetery so that I could hunt ghosts. Some might say I was obsessed with death from an early age, but I’d like to think I was simply fascinated with the past, and with the people who lived there. Thus began a lifelong obsession with history.

I received a doctorate in the history of science, medicine and technology from the University of Oxford. In 2010, I was granted a postdoctoral research fellowship by the Wellcome Trust. I am the author and creator of the popular website The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice, which has received over 2 million hits. I am also the writer and presenter of the YouTube series Under The Knife, which takes a humorous look at our medical past.

I’ve written for ...more

Combine Editions
Lindsey Fitzharris’s books

Average rating: 4.29 · 9,512 ratings · 1,188 reviews · 1 distinct work • Similar authors

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

4.29 avg rating — 9,512 ratings — published 2017 — 27 editions

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by Lindsey Fitzharris

“The best that can be said about Victorian hospitals is that they were a slight improvement over their Georgian predecessors. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement when one considers that a hospital’s “Chief Bug-Catcher”—whose job it was to rid the mattresses of lice—was paid more than its surgeons.”
― Lindsey Fitzharris, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

9 likes

“The adoption of Lister’s antiseptic system was the most prominent outward sign of the medical community’s acceptance of a germ theory, and it marked the epochal moment when medicine and science merged.”
― Lindsey Fitzharris, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

3 likes

“If Lister had nursed any hope that his diligence and reasoned argument concerning his antiseptic system would convert the American audience, he would be sorely disappointed. One attendee accused him of being mentally unhinged and having a “grasshopper in the head.”
― Lindsey Fitzharris, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

3 likes

See all Lindsey Fitzharris's quotes »

Polls

What should our July Non-Fiction read be? (Science)

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

4 votes, 36.4%

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf

3 votes, 27.3%

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah

2 votes, 18.2%

The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey

1 vote, 9.1%

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

1 vote, 9.1%

11 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Life of a Boo...: Jami's 2018 Goal - Clean Up the Audible Backlog	58	54	Sep 05, 2018 03:35PM
Ultimate Popsugar...: 8. A microhistory	261	2608	Nov 28, 2018 12:51AM
Lettori sui generis: Proposte e sondaggio per il GdL di Gennaio: Inghilterra Vittoriana	11	23	Dec 15, 2018 09:57PM
The History Book ...: MEDICINE	140	478	Jan 26, 2019 02:44PM
Challenge Corner: Rainbow Warriors - Review!	64	18	Jul 01, 2019 10:22AM

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Lindsey to Goodreads.