Wendy Moore is a writer and a journalist. After working as a reporter for local newspapers she has specialized in health and medical topics for more than twenty years. As a freelance journalist her work has been published in a range of newspapers and magazines—including the Guardian, the Observer, and the British Medical Journal—and has won several awards. Having written extensively on medical history, she obtained the Diploma in the History of Medicine from the Society of Apothecaries (DHMSA) in 1999 and won the Maccabaean Prize for the best dissertation that year. This is her first book. Upon its publication in the United Kingdom, The Knife Man was named Consumer Book of the Year by the Medical Journalists’ Association. Moore lives in South London with her partner, Peter, also a journalist, and two children, Sam and Susannah.
Praise for the Knife Man:
“The surgeon John Hunter (1728–93) is not a well-known name outside
specialist circles, although that scandalous situation should be
corrected by Wendy Moore’s marvelous biography.” —The Times
Higher
“Definitely not for the squeamish, Moore’s visceral portrait of
this complex and brilliant man offers a wonderful insight into
sickness, suffering, and surgery in the 18th century.” —The
Guardian (UK)
“Moore’s feel for pace and narrative is impeccable. Her book
contains just the right amount of background scenery to bring
Hunter alive without swamping him.… She is, at last, the biographer
Hunter deserves.” —The Independent
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