Digging up the Dead : Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon

Burch, Druin

ISBN 10: 1845950135 / ISBN 13: 9781845950132

Verlag: Penguin Random House, 2008

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Titel: Digging up the Dead : Uncovering the Life ...

Verlag: Penguin Random House

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Very Good

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A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon. Admired from afar by the Brontës and up close by his student Keats, his success was born of an appetite for bloody revolutions.

He set up an international network of bodysnatchers, won the Royal Society's highest prize and boasted to Parliament that there was no one whose body he could not steal. Experimenting on his neighbours' corpses and the living bodies of their stolen pets, his discoveries were as great as his infamy.

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. Setting the past against his own reactions to autopsies and operations, hospitals and poetry, Burch's Digging Up the Dead is a riveting account of a world of gothic horror as well as fertile idealism.

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Druin Burch works as a hospital doctor in Oxford, and is the author of Taking the Medicine.