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A Sunday Times Book of the Year
As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club
Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down…
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Dr James Barry tells the story of Margaret Anne Bulkley, a poor Irish girl in late 18th-century Cork who, refusing to accept her lot and with the help of a few well-placed sponsors, got herself an education and some trousers and turned herself into Dr James Barry. This is a gripping and meticulously researched account of her climb through the medical world and her trek across the globe, where the fear of her gender being discovered lurks on every page. Some parts are gruesome (diseases are horribly well researched and the description of a human dissection in chapter 7 is…
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