Digging Up the Dead

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A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world''s richest and most famous surgeon. Admired from afar by the Brontës and up close by his student Keats, his success was born of an appetite for bloody revolutions.

He set up an international network of bodysnatchers, won the Royal Society''s highest prize and boasted to Parliament that there was no one whose body he coul...

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A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world''s richest and most famous surgeon. Admired from afar by the Brontës and up close by his student Keats, his success was born of an appetite for bloody revolutions.

He set up an international network of bodysnatchers, won the Royal Society''s highest prize and boasted to Parliament that there was no one whose body he coul...

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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9781446400173
  • Publication Date: 31 Oct 2010
  • Publisher: Random House
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM