Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of selfless men working tirelessly in the pursuit of medical advancement. Instead it's a bloodstained tale of blunders, arrogance, mishap and murder. In trying to keep us alive, surgeons have all too often killed us off, and life-saving solutions have often come from the most surprising places. Accompanying a BBC series, Blood and Guts is an incredible story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients - and every now and then courageous advances that have saved the lives of millions around the world. You may think twice before going under the knife...

• The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
• Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
• The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
• Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
• The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
• Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
• Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History
• Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
• The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery