The Anatomy of Deception

The Anatomy of Deception
by Lawrence Goldstone

The Anatomy of Deception
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Author: Lawrence Goldstone
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-01-29
ISBN: 0385341342
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Delacorte Press

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Book Review: Halsted and Osler, what a team
Summary: 4 Stars

The fathers of modern day medicine as characters in a well done murder mystery. While this may be considered heresy by some, I found the book very well done and extremely accurate as to the period in which it took place.

More compelling than the characters and the mystery itself was how well the writer created the dark and dreary times of Philadelphia and its interaction with the medical climate of the late 1800s. The writer cleverly used factual accounts of these individuals with such clarity as to create believable roles by these famous physicians in crimes those of us who have read historical facts of these two great men could never imagine. But he does it convincingly and kudos for that.

While not as well written or as good, this book reminded me of Caleb Carr's excellent (and one of my favorite books) - The Alienist.

If you are not familiar with Halsted and Osler, I recommend a little historical search about both before delving into this book as to understand these two men prior to reading this book makes the book all the more interesting.

Summary of The Anatomy of Deception

A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer

In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, a group of physicians open a coffin and uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman. What they see takes their breath away. Within days, one of them strongly suspects that he knows the woman’s identity…and the horrifying events that led to her death. But in this richly atmospheric novel–an ingenious blend of history, suspense and early forensic science–the most compelling chapter is yet to come, as young Ephraim Carroll is plunged into a maze of murder, secrets and unimaginable crimes....

Dr. Ephraim Carroll came to Philadelphia to study with a leading professor, the brilliant William Osler, believing that he would gain the power to save countless lives. As America hurtles toward a new century, medicine is changing rapidly, in part due to the legalization of autopsy–a crime only a few years before. But Carroll and his mentor are at odds over what they glimpsed that morning in the hospital’s Dead House. And when a second mysterious death is determined to have been a ruthless murder, Carroll can feel the darkness gathering around him–and he ignites an investigation of his own.

Soon he is moving between the realm of elite medicine, Philadelphia high society, and a teeming badlands of criminality and sexual depravity along the city’s fetid waterfront. With a wealthy, seductive woman clouding his vision, the controversial artist Thomas Eakins sowing scandal, and the secrets of the nation’s powerful surgeons unraveling around him, Carroll is forced to confront an agonizing moral choice–between exposing a killer, undoing a wrong, and, quite possibly, protecting the future of medicine itself….

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