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

Wendy Moore, Wendy Moore

378 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction history science dark informative reflective medium-paced
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WINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. Rich or poor, aristocrat or human freak, suffering Georgians knew that Hunter's skill...

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