The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine - Lindsey Fitzharris

This is a most excellent non-fiction. Fascinating, entertaining, gripping and not as gory as I would have expected it to be after the prologue.

 

There has been a tiny section about the dissection of living animals, though, which was awful. Definitely something I should have skipped reading.