The Knife Man: Blood, Body-Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore

The Knife Man: Blood, Body-Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery

Wendy Moore

638 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced
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The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter. In the gothic horror story, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the house of the genial doctor turned fiend is reputedly based on the home of ...

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