Audiobook: The Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack by Alanna Skuse

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Title: The Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack
Author: Alanna Skuse
Narrator: Danielle Cohen
Format: mp3
Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
Release date: 10-16-25
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: History & Commentary

Publisher's Summary: When we imagine Renaissance medicine, the cliché is dreadful–unsterile instruments, a total lack of anaesthetics and shocking levels of infant and maternal mortality. And that’s before you get into astrology, bloodletting and a litany of bizarre ‘treatments’, more likely to kill than cure… As ever, the true picture is somewhat different. Here, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, modern medicine began to take shape.