Digging Up the Dead by Druin Burch
A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon. Caught up in the French Revolution, and in attempts to bring radical democracy to Britain, Cooper nevertheless rose to become surgeon to royals from the Prince Regent to Queen Victoria.
Druin Burch has written a detailed and deeply felt biography of this colourful figure.. Digging Up the Dead is not simply the biography of a great surgeon, but a brilliant portrait of surgical life before the coming of anaesthesia, anitisepsis, antibiotics, and professional regulations * Literary Review *
A physician himself, Burch brings a special insight into episodes whose significance would doubtless be lost or bungled in the hands of another writer... His detailed analyses of early nineteenth-century medical procedures for treating complicated conditions...are masterful, deft and humane * Times Literary Supplement *
Vivid account of 18th-century surgeon Astley Cooper's life... Burch, also a doctor, mixes his narrative with recollections from his own practice, which serve to enhance this lively biography...All in all a jolly good read * BBC History Magazine *
An ambitious and convincing attempt to bring back to life the man who was responsible for so many less respectable acts of resurrection * New Statesman *
[An] evocative biography... Burch (clearly smitten) dares the reader to empathise with "this vain, egotistical, nepotistic and rather wonderful" man, with considerable success * The Lancet *
A physician himself, Burch brings a special insight into episodes whose significance would doubtless be lost or bungled in the hands of another writer... His detailed analyses of early nineteenth-century medical procedures for treating complicated conditions...are masterful, deft and humane * Times Literary Supplement *
Vivid account of 18th-century surgeon Astley Cooper's life... Burch, also a doctor, mixes his narrative with recollections from his own practice, which serve to enhance this lively biography...All in all a jolly good read * BBC History Magazine *
An ambitious and convincing attempt to bring back to life the man who was responsible for so many less respectable acts of resurrection * New Statesman *
[An] evocative biography... Burch (clearly smitten) dares the reader to empathise with "this vain, egotistical, nepotistic and rather wonderful" man, with considerable success * The Lancet *
Druin Burch works as a hospital doctor in Oxford, and is the author of Taking the Medicine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845950132 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845950135 |
| Title | Digging Up the Dead |
| Author | Druin Burch |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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