The Anatomy of Deception
by Lawrence Goldstone
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Author: Lawrence GoldstoneEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-02-24
ISBN: 0385341350
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Delta
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Summary: 5 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this story for a number of reasons. I spent 2 1/2 years at the old Philadelphia General Hospital and am amazed at the author's wide knowledge of Philadelphia in the late 19th century. In addition to this, one of the emeritus professors in my medical school trained at Hopkins with Halsted, and this man's eldest son, who eventually became professor of medicine at my medical school, was named after Halsted. Even though I was at P.G.H. about 50 years later than the time of the novel, reading it brought back a lot of memories.
Summary of The Anatomy of Deception
The year is 1889. In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, physicians uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman. What they see takes their breath away. Within days, one doctor, Ephraim Carroll, strongly suspects that he knows the woman?s identity?and the horrifying events that led to her death.
Dr. 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. 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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