Catherine Johnson, of Jamaican-Welsh heritage, grew up in north London. She has written over 20 novels for young readers. Her most recent historical novels were nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Sawbones won the Young Quills Award for best historical fiction for 12+, and The Curious Tale of The Lady Caraboo was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the YA Book Prize. In the retrospective, many things are unbelievable and it is difficult to gauge the suffering of the patients, or rather victims. But how did these questionable approaches devoid of any good clinical practice and scientific method develop? What were the causes of so many wrong turns? It opens a very likely option. That many of the fundamental doctrines of relevant authorities are partially or wholly wrong which might bring paradigm shifts in some medical disciplines in the future. Not even to mention psychology and psychiatry, which are much harder to analyze and quantify.

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Ambitions, Revenge, Racism, Murder, Death, Blood, Bones, Cadaver, cadaver, cadaver and more cadavers. This is a tough review to write. I love the podcast and I think that this book hits a lot of the same notes which made for an entertaining and informative read. The information covered was well researched and presented in an approachable and interesting way. I think it would be a good introductory taste to medical history rather than a comprehensive tome, and adds some interesting color to the world of medicine. However, there are some fairly egregious editing errors - double words, poor layout choices, missing information - that distract from the message at times. They are frequent enough that almost all of the sections have some issues, and I hope that a reprint will fix them. If you are easily distracted by editing issues, then this might be a struggle for you. This quote sums up the novel perfectly. In 1792, sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam assists at the dissection table as a gifted apprentice to a high regarded London surgeon, learning how to reveal the secrets each body hides. His age is an estimate based on medical measurements as he, a mulatto of mixed race, was bought in Spanish Town by his master, Mr McAdam. The skills he learns as a surgeon’s apprentice will serve him well for life. I liked this book a lot, it’s a great romp for YA readers and wonderfully written, a great diverse read. I love the natural formation of the trio who I hope will get up to many more adventures!Then a strange series of events changes everything. Now, McAdam is dead, and Ezra is alone - except for the unconventional Miss Loveday Finch, daughter of a magician, who is looking for answers about her father's death. Soon, the pair find themselves tangled in an adventure featuring grave-robbing, body-switching and political intrigue, which takes them a journey across London from the Operating Theatre at St Bart's, to the vaults of Newgate Prison, to the shadowy Ottoman Embassy. Today, the obstacle of modern medicine is the problem of one-sidedness. For example, the Human Genome Project, which deducted funding from all other research areas. Furthermore, the research was unilaterally pushed in one direction and paid too little attention to all different approaches and theories. Ironically, there are now no further results. On the contrary, the underestimated RNA played a much more significant role than expected. Subjectively speaking, one could have come to the conclusion earlier that the source code RNA has something to do with the software DNA. But whatever. This could be further excavated by other examples from recent history and the future will certainly unveil more bias. Medical science is flourishing, and in London the illegal trade in corpses has never been more… alive.’ but the audio fell a little short for me! perhaps if you're a newcomer, it won't, but i missed the improv and actual laughter that fills their podcast episodes. The Sawbones Book is exactly what it advertises: a delightful tour of medical history, the things we as a species have gotten right and the many, many wwe have gotten wrong, with humorous commentary among historical and medical facts. If you enjoy medical history and are looking to dip just a bit more deeply, or if you have a passing interest and like the occasional dumb joke, then you can't go wrong with this book.

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as a sawbones/mcelroy fan, i was suuuper excited for this! and i wasn't disappointed. the book for this was stunning - i flipped through and read sections. it's well formatted and full of typical mcelroy humor. i'm gonna copy and paste this and review both editions.This leads to a number of increasingly difficult situations for the pair and as they overcome one, the author increases the stakes and makes tougher especially for Ezra.

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One day, a corpse is placed on Ezra's master's anatomical table, but there are too many anomalies and injuries for this man to have died a straightforward death. Ezra raises his concerns with his master, and so begins the murder mystery.When we meet him his biggest concern is not losing the girl he is giving his attention to now that he has come of age, and being taken seriously in the blooming surgeon community given the colouring of his skin. But when a corpse turns up on his master’s anatomizing table with a couple too many unexplained quirks, ones that might get undesired attention and might imply that the poor soul may actually be missed and claimed, Ezra raises his concerns with his master. Add to the mix a red headed girl with a fiery and willful personality who seeks revenge for the death of her father which she claims is murder, and you have yourself a mystery. But the mystery goes beyond that. There are more ingredients to this recipe, and the intrigues run deeper than the scalpel has initially cut and further than the streets of London. That being said, I have a great deal of faith in Justin and Sydnee's ability to write a solid and enjoyable piece of text. I laughed out loud more than just a few times, and I adore that it's formatted to look like a small textbook. Teylor's illustrations were by far the highlight of the entire piece.

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She has also written for TV including Rough Crossings for BBC2 with Simon Schama and popular continuing drama Holby City on BBC1. Her film work includes the award-winning Bullet Boy(2004), and her radio play, Fresh Berries, was shortlisted for the Prix Italia. The content of this book is great. Sydnee and Justin's contrasting takes on Kellogg was one of the funniest things I've ever read, and Teylor's art is wonderful. But I had bought this book to give to my brother, a doctor, as a Christmas gift, and I just can't do it - not because the book is so good and I want to keep it for myself (my original fear), but because it is so obviously unfinished that it feels insulting. I loved loved loved everything about it, and something that surprised me is how much coziness one could fit in a story about a string of murders, a young surgeon and grave robbers. I loved the friendships, the emotions, the light humour and the historical bits. I just fell head over heels for this story, and I dug my own grave. When Essie and Robbie’s mother dies, following a failed operation, they are abandoned by their father and left to fend for themselves in nineteenth-century Edinburgh. For a small book, this was filled with MANY descriptions of surgeries and body studies, and I did not mind it one bit. If anything, I enjoyed it to the fullest, and learnt even more about medicine in the past. I loved the characters so deeply, and will forever carry them with me. I loved the setting, the aesthetic, the twists of the plot, the writing, the inspiration from the Hunterian museum AND the mystery.Humans took a long, weird road to modern medicine. We don’t have everything figured out yet, but at least we’ve learned not to drink the feces of cholera victims and never to plug dental cavities with a lizard’s liver — unlike some of our ancestors. What initially caught my attention with Sawbones was the somewhat dark and a little macabre cover, and subsequently the very short and brief synopsis that hinted to one mystery and perhaps an even bigger one lying beneath. This is my favorite podcast, so I was excited to get my hands on this book. Unfortunately it fell a little flat. First, if you listen to the podcast or enjoy medical history this book is not going to add to you knowledge. That isn’t a negative. Just be aware that it’s more of an introduction to the subject than an immersion into it. Second, the podcast is hilarious; the book not so much. The dynamic the two authors have verbally doesn’t translate well into the written word. I’ve experienced the same when reading other books by stand up comedians. Lastly, the book needed better editing. I found multiple typos and grammatical errors. This is what bothered me the most as it’s a pet peeve of mine. Having read The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson and more recently Unrest by Michelle Harrison, two books that both took me out of my comfort zone I decided to follow my gut, take a leap of faith and go for it. Turns out I should do that more often!