Book Reviews

Outside the AAHM, Lister may best be remembered for the mouthwash Listerine (which he did not invent but was named after him), but within the history of medicine, he is a towering figure who helped introduce anti-septic surgery to the world. Lindsey Fitzharris tells this tale in her fast-moving popular history.

Mezrich, a transplant surgeon at Wisconsin weaves the history of his field into her personal journey as a transplant surgeon.

Jones, a veteran local journalist, relies on extensive interviews, court records, and news articles to reconstruct the first heart transplant in the south by Richard Lower, a pioneering surgeon.