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“John Hunter, The Once and Future Surgeon: Why
the work of an eighteenth-century pioneer is still relevant today”
Wendy Moore, author and
journalist
Friday, November 30, 2012
Public lecture: 12:15pm
Refreshments served at noon
Location: Old Library
Auditorium
Wendy Moore is a British journalist and author. Her first
book, The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father
of Modern Surgery was published in 2005 and won the Medical Journalists’
Association Consumer Book Award. Her second book, Wedlock: How Georgian
Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match, was published in 2009 and reached
number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list. She is currently working
on her third book, due for publication in
early 2013. As an award-winning freelance journalist specializing in health
issues, Moore has been published in national newspapers, the British Medical
Journal, and History Today. She currently writes a column on medical
history for the BMJ. Her combined interest in medicine and history led
to her taking the diploma in the history of medicine with the Society of Apothecaries
(DHMSA) in 1999, earning the Macabbean prize for the best dissertation.
