Book club: “The Facemaker” by Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story of plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who helped the military in World War I.

Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story Dr. Harold Gillies, a military surgeon who spent WWI reconstructing the faces of soldiers and sailors who'd suffered horrific facial injuries.

In war, amputees might be celebrated as heroes. But those with damaged faces endure a far different reception. They “often caused feelings of revulsion and disgust,” says medical historian and ...

Lindsey Fitzharris's “The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I” tells of a plastic surgeon whose care went beyond physical healing.

The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris, published by Allen Lane, is on sale in the UK for £20. You can buy it here.

Lindsey Fitzharris is the author of The Facemaker and The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, which won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for ...

As Lindsey Fitzharris writes in her scholarly yet deeply moving book The Facemaker, about the First World War facio-maxillary surgeon Harold Gillies, it is said that in the Napoleonic Wars soldiers ...

The Facemaker, by Lindsey Fitzharris Allen Lane, £20. OFTEN after war, comes technical advance for peacetime: but afterwards, not before, as all funded effort is in the technology of killing. World ...

Introduction. Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris, author of "The Facemaker," provides an introduction to her book and the life of Harold Gillies.

Medical historian and author Lindsey Fitzharris said that when she began writing “The Facemaker” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30), she was concerned that it wouldn’t be well received.