The gripping unknown story of a surgeon and his world (from grave robbers to the Prince Regent), told vividly from the inside by someone who is himself a young practising physician, who gives us a real insight into medical history and adds his own intimate, modern experience.
Druin Burch works as a hospital doctor in Oxford, and is the author of Taking the Medicine.
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*
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