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. And ...

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.

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 ...

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

The Facemaker. By Lindsey Fitzharris. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 336 pages; $23.99. Allen Lane; £20. An account of the pioneering work done by Harold Gillies in the early 20th century at ...

The other book I — that has stayed with me is by the medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris. And it's called "The Facemaker." It's about the pioneering plastic surgery work of Harold Gillies, ...

The World War I history of plastic surgery, and how it set the stage for today’s uses, is the subject of the new book The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of ...

Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris explores the incredible developments Gillies made in the field in her new book, The Facemaker. The results of his work went beyond the transformational aesthetic ...

Burt’s character seems suggested by New Zealand Dr. Harold Gillies (Harold Woodman’s first name may be derived from him), a battlefield surgeon during WWI chronicled in Lindsey Fitzharris ...

On this episode, we talk with medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris about her new book “ The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I,” which traces ...