Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0-553-81618-7 |
No of pages | 638 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Bantam Books |
Published Date | 03 Apr 2006 |
I am an award-winning author and freelance journalist. I trained as a journalist at Harlow Technical College before working in local newspapers and then specialising in health issues. I have worked freelance since 1991 and written for numerous national newspapers including the Guardian, Times, Sunday Telegraph and Express as well as for medical journals including the Lancet and BMJ. I currently write reviews, features and news stories for a wide range of national and specialist publications.
My first book, The Knife Man, a biography of the 18th-century surgeon John Hunter, was published in 2005. It won the UK Medical Journalists' Association Consumer Book Award and was short-listed for the Marsh Biography Award and the Saltire Award. My second book, Wedlock, was published in 2009. It was picked for Channel 4's TV Book Club and reached no 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list. It has been optioned for a possible TV series. My third book, How to Create the Perfect Wife, came out in 2013, and was widely acclaimed. All my books have been published in the UK and US and translated into various languages. My fourth book, The Mesmerist, is out now in hardback and paperback. I am currently writing a book about the Endell Street Military Hospital which was run by women in Covent Garden during World War One.
As an author I have given talks at numerous festivals and other events as well as speaking to many book groups and other organisations. In America I have lectured at the University of North Carolina, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons conference 2008, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, and the University of Toledo, Ohio. I have been interviewed on many occasions on radio and TV. I have a diploma in the History of Medicine from the Society of Apothecaries and won the Maccabean Prize for the best dissertation in 1999.
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Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. Rich or poor, aristocrat or human freak, suffering Georgians knew that Hunter's skills might well save their lives but if he failed, their corpses could end up on his dissecting table, their bones and organs destined for display in his remarkable, macabre museum.
Maverick medical pioneer, adored teacher, brilliant naturalist, Hunter was a key figure of the Enlightenment who transformed surgery, advanced biological understanding and even anticipated the evolutionary theories of Darwin. He provided inspiration both for Dr Jekyll and Dr Dolittle. But the extremes to which he went to pursue his scientific mission raised question marks then as now.
John Hunter's extraordinary world comes to life in this remarkable, award-winning biography written by a wonderful new talent.