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Lindsey Fitzharris
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Lindsey Fitzharris

Lindsey Fitzharris Biography

Lindsey Fitzharris is the author of The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, which won the PEN/E. O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing and has been translated into multiple languages. Her TV series The Curious Life and Death of... aired on the Smithsonian Channel. She contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and other notable publications, and holds a doctorate in the History of Science and Medicine from the University of Oxford.

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