Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris has won the PEN / E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing. for her “The Butchering Art; Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine.”
The Butchering Art Wins PEN / E.O. Wilson Prize
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A Bloody Marvellous Book
In Roxanne, the 1987 film adaptation of the Cyrano de Bergerac story, Steve Martin – in the leading male role of the a small mountain resort town’s erudite fire chief somewhat obviously named C.D. Bales – chastises his lovable but incompetent band of volunteer fire fighters upon finding a trash can ablaze inside the fire […]