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

341 pages paperback 2005

6 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.When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turn...

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