El arte del bisturí

Surgeon Arnold van de Laar draws on his own experience and knowledge to tell us an incisive history of the past, present and future of the discipline through 29 famous operations. From the story of how Albert Einstein was saved from an aneurysm to the extraction of a kidney stone that a Dutch blacksmith performed on himself in the 17th century or the operation on John Paul II after the attack he suffered in 1981, among others, Arnold van de Laar tries to respond to everything that happens in the course of an operation and investigates the limits of surgery in line with new medical advances. An entertaining, instructive and shocking look at the procedures and philosophy of those who cut to heal.