Alanna Skuse
October 4 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Alanna Skuse
The Surgeon, the Midwife and the Quack
How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
with Kate Harris
Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England – a world of travelling surgeons, prosthetics craftsmen, faith healers and snake oil merchants. But a medical
revolution was afoot and this book evokes the remarkable birth of modern medicine.
Alanna Skuse is a literary scholar, historian and author with a focus on stories, about medicine, bodies and Renaissance England.