Author Lindsey Fitzharris finds medical history relatable. “If you don’t like history, you may like medical history, because everybody knows what it’s like to be sick.” Stuart Simpson In war, amputees ...

Medical historian and author Lindsey Fitzharris said that when she began writing “The Facemaker” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30), she was concerned that it wouldn’t be well received. And she secretly ...

The metrics from World War I are horrific. In all, there were 37 million military and civilian casualties — 16 million dead and 21 million wounded. Never before had a conflict brought such devastation ...

Shahid Aziz has spent hours poring over the case histories of World War I soldiers who returned home with disfiguring facial injuries. The world had never seen this type of injury on such a large ...

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