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Author: Robert John Sand Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1411642708 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 440
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A remote medical clinic in an abandoned Canadian meat plant specializes in restoring people's faces. The owner recuits a young disgraced ER doctor & together they expand the clinic's reputation by handling only the most difficult high profile cases, those other doctors refuse. Three horribly disfigured sisters are discovered in remote Montana. The doctors create 3 beauties, one of which closely resembles a deceased movie star. Two sisters are offered movie careers in Hollywood & eventually one dies of AIDS & the other commits suicide. The younger doctor unexpectedly finds & marries the 3rd sister. During an emergency procedure on the only survivor of a plane crash in Vail, he discovers through routine DNA testing that the boy is related to his wife. She hires a retired LA police detective to solve the mystery. Repercussion in the the form of letter bombs & attacks immediately follow & the Clinic hires a group of forgotten Vietnam era military snipers, now led by a self proclaimed Reverend to protect them.
Author: Marjorie Gehrhardt Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN: 9783034318693 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 304
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This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special focus on France, Germany and Great Britain. It illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war.
Author: Deborah Carr Publisher: ISBN: 9780992786564 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 598
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Four years. Four lives changed forever. November 1914 When Freddie Chevalier's best friend, Charles, joins the cavalry and sets off to fight in the Great War he can't help feeling he's missing out. Until the war he enjoyed his bucolic existence working on his parent's farm on the island of Jersey, but now he yearns for excitement. He's always harboured a secret passion for Charles' fiancee, Meri. She's 'The Girl'. The one he loves but can't have. Nothing compares to the guilt he feels when Meri comes to stay at his home on her way to France and he betrays Charles in the worst possible way. Can Freddie and Meri keep Charles from ever discovering what happened between them? Will Freddie ever notice Charles' younger sister, Lexi? And how will they all react when one of them is almost killed and has to cope with a life-changing injury? One thing is for certain, none of them knows the other as well as they thought. Each will be forced to take charge of their lives and find ways to live with the consequences of the choices that they and others have made. And by November 1918 everything they thought of as familiar will have vanished."
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374719667 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 235
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A New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian "Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." —Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery. From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: humankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such an individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world’s first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose task was to rebuild what had been torn apart, to re-create what had been destroyed. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. The Facemaker places Gillies’s ingenious surgical innovations alongside the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine can be an art, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.
Author: Judith Allnatt Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0007522967 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 340
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A poignant story of love and redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence through a war that destroys everything except the bonds of human hearts.
Author: Robert John Sand Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1411642708 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 440
Book Description
A remote medical clinic in an abandoned Canadian meat plant specializes in restoring people's faces. The owner recuits a young disgraced ER doctor & together they expand the clinic's reputation by handling only the most difficult high profile cases, those other doctors refuse. Three horribly disfigured sisters are discovered in remote Montana. The doctors create 3 beauties, one of which closely resembles a deceased movie star. Two sisters are offered movie careers in Hollywood & eventually one dies of AIDS & the other commits suicide. The younger doctor unexpectedly finds & marries the 3rd sister. During an emergency procedure on the only survivor of a plane crash in Vail, he discovers through routine DNA testing that the boy is related to his wife. She hires a retired LA police detective to solve the mystery. Repercussion in the the form of letter bombs & attacks immediately follow & the Clinic hires a group of forgotten Vietnam era military snipers, now led by a self proclaimed Reverend to protect them.
Author: Russell Thornton Publisher: Harbour Publishing ISBN: 1550178458 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 95
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The poems in The Broken Face explore a sacramental, imaginative vision within contexts of crime, perception, memory and love. In this collection, Russell Thornton returns to the vital themes of intimacy and family, loss, fear and hope, bringing to each poem the essential quality of a myth or incantation. Reverent and revealing, within those familiar relationships he ushers in a connection with something transcendent: “A man has come floundering late in the night / to stand alone at the shore of a sleeping infant’s face.” The poems capture life at the periphery, whether describing homelessness or incarceration, or even the universal experiences of aging and mortality, love and fear of love, all of which bring the speaker into a detached yet energized state of watching and waiting: “the door that was my grandfather into our passing lives / will arrive at a house where each of us is his own door / that opens on our first selves, fundamental together.” With intense lyricism, Thornton displays a mastery of craft so complete as to be nearly invisible. While stunningly beautiful, his imagery is also in such complete service to the deeper emotional resonance of each poem that it feels inevitable, and contributes to making the collection deeply moving.
Author: Fiona Reid Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472505921 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 281
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The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services. In a situation of total war civilians on the home front came into more contact than before with medical professionals, and even pacifists played a significant medical role. Medicine in First World War Europe re-visits the casualty clearing stations and the hospitals of the First World War, and tells the stories of those who were most directly involved: doctors, nurses, wounded men and their families. Fiona Reid explains how military medicine interacts with the concerns, the cultures and the behaviours of the civilian world, treating the history of wartime military medicine as an integral part of the wider social and cultural history of the First World War.
Author: Patricia Skinner Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350028312 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 266
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What is a face and how does it relate to personhood? Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the many ways in which faces have been represented in the past and present, focusing on the issue of facial difference and disfigurement read in the light of shifting ideas of beauty and ugliness. Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet their study has been much overlooked by disability scholars and historians of medicine alike. By examining the main linguistic, visual and material approaches to the face from antiquity to contemporary times, contributors place facial diversity at the heart of our historical and cultural narratives. This cutting-edge collection of essays will be an invaluable resource for humanities scholars working across history, literature and visual culture, as well as modern practitioners in education and psychology.
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