Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
9 best books like Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius (Colin Dickey): Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, The Inverted World, The Beggar's Opera, Woman World, Forever Flowing, The Strange Death of Liberal England, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.
Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
| Author | Lindsey Fitzharris |
| ISBN | 0374117292 |
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed...
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
| Author | Caitlin Doughty |
| ISBN | 0393351904 |
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0060134216 |
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city & carefully removed in its wake. Rivers & mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move,...
| Author | John Gay |
| ISBN | 0140432205 |
An 18th Century parody of the Italian Opera
23 December 2013
I want to give this play a high score simply because of it's context and content, and as it is one of the only satirical operas that has survived from the early 18th Century should also give this play, or more properly opera, some...
| Author | Aminder Dhaliwal |
| ISBN | 1770463356 |
The hilarious and wildly popular instagram comic about a world with no men
With her startling humor, it’s no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal’s web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 150,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000...
| Author | Vasily Grossman |
| ISBN | 0810115034 |
Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world....
| Author | George Dangerfield |
| ISBN | 0804729301 |
At the beginning of the twentieth century England's empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the ills that inflicted so many other countries. After a resounding electoral triumph in 1906, the Liberals formed the government of the most powerful nation...
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
| Author | Stacy Horn |
| ISBN | 1616205768 |
Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell’s Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would send its insane, indigent, sick, and criminal. Told through the gripping voices of...
