Bestselling author of THE BUTCHERING ART. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2010153997/, "A surgical strike: Writer reveals how Victorian medical visionary has transformed her life", "Invasion of the 'Deathxperts': Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris/The Chirurgeon's Apprentice Edition", "From Barbers and Butchers to Modern Surgeons", "PEN/E.O.

Fitzharris is a notable science communicator whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal[9], The Guardian[10], Scientific American[11], New Scientist[12], and other publications.

Lindsey Fitzharris was born in England on May 11, 1982.

Sign up to our mailing list. I am also the writer and presenter of the YouTube series Under The Knife, which takes a humorous look at our medical past. Non-fiction author who started the blog, The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice and has hosted the YouTube video series Under the Knife. Her next book will be on the birth of plastic surgery told through the incredible story of Harold Gillies, the pioneering surgeon who first united art & medicine to address the horrific injures that resulted from World War I. Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris is a bestselling author, and medical historian with a doctorate from the University of Oxford. [6] The book was also shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize[7] and Wolfson History Prize[8] in the United Kingdom that same year. Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris is a bestselling author, and medical historian with a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Non-fiction author who started the blog, The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice and has hosted the YouTube video series Under the Knife. To date, The Butchering Art has been translated into fourteen languages. Purveyor of gruesome history. As a little girl, I used to drag my grandmother from cemetery to cemetery so that I could hunt ghosts. Storyteller. [3] She was awarded a postdoctoral award from the Wellcome Trust in 2010.

Lindsey Fitzharris (born 1982) is an author, medical historian, and television host.She is the creator of the popular blog, The Chirurgeon's Apprentice; and the writer and host of the TV series The Curious Life and Death Of... on the Smithsonian Channel.. She is an American currently living in the UK. I received a doctorate in the history of science, medicine and technology from the University of Oxford. Keep in touch. In March 2019, Fitzharris appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience[13]. She is an American currently living in the UK.[2]. Some might say I was obsessed with death from an early age, but I’d like to think I was simply fascinated with the past, and with the people who lived there. 65K likes. Fitzharris holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology, received from the University of Oxford in 2009. Wilson Award for Literary Science in the United States; and was shortlisted for both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Wolfson History Prize in the United Kingdom. I have appeared on PBS, Channel 4, BBC, and National Geographic. Sign up to our mailing list. Her debut book, The Butchering Art, won the PEN/E.O.

The Will Smith that fans are familiar with from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an energetic, enthusiastic, and caring young man, with a mind-boggling 90s fashion sense that is absolutely second to none.He’s got the street smarts, but the show provides no inclination at all towards scholarly pursuits. Biography. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award,[5] and was named an American Library Association Notable Nonfiction book for 2018. Lindsey Fitzharris is a writer, known for The Butchering Art (2017), Medicine's Dark Secrets and Tony Robinson's Gods & Monsters (2011). She has written for a variety of publications, including Scientific America, The Guardian, The Lancet, New Scientist, and The Huffington Post. Dr Lindsey Fitzharris. Fitzharris is also the writer and host of the television series, The Curious Life and Death of...[14], which will premiere on the Smithsonian Channel in 2020.