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Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time - du Preez, Michael, Dr., and Dronfield, Jeremy
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A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down at Scutari. At home he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and a terrier. Long ago in Cork, Ireland, he had also been a mother. This is the amazing tale of ...

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Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time 2017, Oneworld Publications, London

ISBN-13: 9781786071194

Mass-market paperback

Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time 2016, Oneworld Publications, London

ISBN-13: 9781780748313

Hardcover