Lindsey Fitzharris


Lindsey Fitzharris is an author, medical historian and television host. She is the creator of the popular blog, The Chirurgeon's Apprentice, and the host of the YouTube video series Under the Knife, which takes a humorous look back at medical history.
She is an American currently living in the UK.

Career

Fitzharris holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology, received from the University of Oxford in 2009. She was awarded a postdoctoral award from the Wellcome Trust in 2010.
In 2017, she published The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, a biography of surgical pioneer Joseph Lister. The book won the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and was named an American Library Association Notable Nonfiction book for 2018. The book was also shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and Wolfson History Prize in the United Kingdom that same year. To date, The Butchering Art has been translated into fourteen languages.
Fitzharris is a notable science communicator whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Scientific American, New Scientist, and other distinguished publications. In March 2019, Fitzharris appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience. Her interview was #1 on Chartable, with millions of downloads in the first week.
Fitzharris is also the writer and host of the television series, The Curious Life and Death of..., which will premiere on the Smithsonian Channel in 2020.
She is currently working on her second book about Harold Gillies, the “Father of Plastic Surgery,” who rebuilt soldiers’ faces during the First World War. Together with her husband Adrian Teal, she will also be publishing a children's book in 2022.

Personal Life

Fitzharris is an American who lives in the United Kingdom with her husband, the notable artist and caricaturist Adrian Teal. The couple married in 2017.