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Digging Up The Dead: The Life and Times of Astley Cooper, an Extraordinary Surgeon
Contemporary Review, Spring, 2008
Digging Up The Dead: The Life and Times of Astley Cooper, an Extraordinary Surgeon. Druin Burch. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]20.00. xii + 276 pages. ISBN 978-0-701-17985-4. Astley Cooper (1768-1841), later Sir Astley Cooper, Bt., was one of the most famous doctors of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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He was a highly skilled anatomist and surgeon and in both fields he made 'a number of innovative discoveries'. He was a highly successful teacher and became physician to two sovereigns and died a wealthy man. His life was marked by a 'terrifying energy' and his great interest was 'to look into things and see them clearly'. He was also 'vain, egotistical, [and] nepotistic'. The author, himself a physician, uses his research into surviving manuscripts and his own medical experience to give readers a balanced and objective life of an extraordinary man. (The title refers to the 'ressurectionists' who illegally dug up the bodies with which anatomists such as Cooper worked.) (J.T.D.R.)
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