Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
Dr. Michael du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 6th Jul '17
£11.99
A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick – the remarkable story of the extraordinary woman who defied her times by living as a man
SKU: 9781786071194
Categories: Biography: science, technology and medicine, History, History of medicine, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, True stories of discoveryDescription
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 at Scutari. At home he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and a terrier. Long ago in Cork, Ireland, he had also been a mother. This is the amazing tale of Margaret Anne Bulkley, the young woman who broke the rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected surgeons of the century. In an extraordinary life, she crossed paths with the British Empire’s great and good, royalty and rebels, soldiers and slaves. A medical pioneer, she rose to a position that no woman before her had been allowed to occupy, but for all her successes, her long, audacious deception also left her isolated, even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved.
Additional information
Dimensions | 28 × 129 × 198 mm |
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Page Count | 496 |
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