Druin Burch: 2 books
Digging Up the Dead
Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
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,...
Taking the Medicine
A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea, and our Difficulty Swallowing It
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Doctors and patients alike trust the medical profession and its therapeutic powers; yet this trust has often been misplaced. Whether prescribing opium or thalidomide, aspirin or antidepressants, doctors have persistently failed to test their favourite ideas - often with catastrophic results. From...