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ISBN: 9781845950132 - Digging Up the Dead Digging Up the Dead
Druin Burch

ISBN10: 1845950135  ISBN13: 9781845950132
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Mar 2008
A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon. Admired from afar by the Brontes and up close by his student Keats, his success was born of an appetite for bloody revolutions. More

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ISBN: 9781845951504 - Taking the Medicine Taking the Medicine
Druin Burch

ISBN10: 1845951506  ISBN13: 9781845951504
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jan 2010
Argues that the real heroes of medicine are the men and women who demonstrated the vital importance of controlled testing over the 'intuition' of doctors and encourages us to ask more questions about the new breed of wonder drugs, and to press... More

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ISBN: 9780701182786 - Taking the Medicine Taking the Medicine
Druin Burch

ISBN10: 0701182784  ISBN13: 9780701182786
Publisher: Vintage Chatto & Windus
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Jan 2009
This is a controversial history of medicine and medical drugs from a completely new angle and a wake-up call to us all. Instead of merely placing cures in the culture of their day, Druin Burch dares to ask 'did they work?' The answer is a... More

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ISBN: 9780701179854 - Digging Up the Dead Digging Up the Dead
Druin Burch

ISBN10: 0701179856  ISBN13: 9780701179854
Publisher: Vintage Chatto & Windus
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2007
A historical narrative, where surgeons and body-snatchers colluded and conspired because this was the only way the surgeons could get anatomical experience. This book tells the story of Astley Cooper (1768-1841), a tearaway young man from Norfolk... More

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ISBN: 9781845951504 - Taking the Medicine Taking the Medicine
Burch, Druin

ISBN10: 9781407021225  ISBN13: 9781407021225
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
For years patients have placed their trust in doctors and the drugs they prescribe. Yet as Druin Burch's thought-provoking history of medicine demonstrates our trust has often been misplaced. Only with the development of antibiotics after the... More