Reddit mentions of The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Some nonfiction books I enjoyed that came to mind:

• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
  
• The World’s Religions by Huston Smith
  
• Science In The Looking Glass by E. Brian Davies
  
• The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
  
• Head In The Cloud by William Poundstone
  
• The Future Of An Illusion by Sigmund Frued
  
• The Meaning Of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
  
• The Rape Of Nanking by Iris Chang

Anyone interested in this guy should read https://www.amazon.com/Butchering-Art-Transform-Victorian-Medicine/dp/0374117292 it's astounding the state surgical practices were in just 150yrs ago, and how this guys protégé changed everything.

This super cool nonfiction book called The Butchering Art about Joseph Lister and the advent of germ theory and antiseptic.

It's kind of graphic so if you're not cool reading about guts and pus then maybe it's not for you. But I love it.

I find that science history and biography gives a good understanding of scientific methods, and when written for the lay-person, doesn't get so bogged down in technical jargon.

Here are a few of my favorites:

• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
  
• Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick
  (Also check out his biographies of Isaac Newton and Richard Feynman)
  
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
  
  And here are a few on my to read list:
  
  
• Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society - Bill Bryson
  
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
  
• The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine - Lindsey Fitzharris
  
• Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus - Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy
  
• The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring - Richard Preston
  
• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science - Richard Holmes
  
• The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution - David Wootton
  
  I hope that helps.

Lucky you! I'm not sure an audio version of the book would really work because of the photos, however you may dig The Butchering Art by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris.