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if you like forensic mysteries you’re in
for a treat
author Lawrence Goldstone takes us to
the heart of the anatomy of deception
his suspense thriller that thrusts
readers back to 1889 to the operating
rooms and back alleys of Philly you want
to tell us a little bit about how you
got interested in medicine my wife and I
used to ride together and we stopped
because we were running out of dishes
but we had written three funny memoirs
about people who collect all the books
and afterwards we wanted to do something
a little bit different and we saw a
movie called the Red Violin which is
cool Canadian film about a violent gets
passed down through a series of really
interesting owners and we said wouldn’t
that be an interesting story to find a
book that had been passed down through a
bunch of interesting owners and nobody
could think of one and eventually he
went to the New York Public Library and
a woman turned us on to a man named
Michael Servetus who was a 16th century
genius who was a physician and he was a
theologian he’s a founder of
Unitarianism he’s just a remarkable
figure and he in turn his works were
collected by William Osler the more we
studied Osler the more we realized that
we had somebody who was equally
fascinating
it’s trying to work an interesting fun
story a pagesturning story I did my job
into something where there’s a real
issue in love writing is also an
artistic pursuit what was it like
balancing artistic expression with the
use of historical and scientific data
when you’re writing nonfiction history
you can’t say well how would this person
have acted in this circumstance but in
this I could really do that I could take
William Laughlin and I could say well
here is a man who has expressed these
points of view
how would he behave when faced with
these sets of challenges the result was
I came away knowing more about the
period that I would have had I written a
straight line fiction piece the anatomy
of deception looks at pretty specific
turning points in modern medicine so
what parallels can we grasp with
contemporary medicine in 1883 which is
six years before the book was sent The
Moth the foremost anatomist in America
was indicted for despoiling graves
because autopsy was illegal and he
almost went to jail and they passed an
Anatomy Act understanding that you
weren’t going to stop on top see that
you maybe should manage change a little
bit right now we’re dealing with the
same thing with things like cloning if
history has shown us anything is that
human beings have this insatiable need
to find out and somebody is going to
clone a human being it isn’t a question
of whether we can decide whether or not
someone will do it but when someone does
it and the way it’s done can we manage
change in terms of things that make life
better all I can say is if you ask
someone from the 16th century about the
20th the 20th century 21st century and
discussed some of the changes they would
say well this is a violation this is
against God there was a strong feeling
in earlier centuries you shouldn’t cure
disease because disease was God’s will
if you like forensic mysteries you’re in
for a treat
author Lawrence Goldstone takes us to
the heart of the anatomy of deception
his suspense thriller that thrusts
readers back to 1889 to the operating
rooms and back alleys of Philly you want
to tell us a little bit about how you
got interested in medicine my wife and I
used to ride together and we stopped
because we were running out of dishes
but we had written three funny memoirs
about people who collect all the books
and afterwards we wanted to do something
a little bit different and we saw a
movie called the Red Violin which is
cool Canadian film about a violent gets
passed down through a series of really
interesting owners and we said wouldn’t
that be an interesting story to find a
book that had been passed down through a
bunch of interesting owners and nobody
could think of one and eventually he
went to the New York Public Library and
a woman turned us on to a man named
Michael Servetus who was a 16th century
genius who was a physician and he was a
theologian he’s a founder of
Unitarianism he’s just a remarkable
figure and he in turn his works were
collected by William Osler the more we
studied Osler the more we realized that
we had somebody who was equally
fascinating
it’s trying to work an interesting fun
story a pagesturning story I did my job
into something where there’s a real
issue in love writing is also an
artistic pursuit what was it like
balancing artistic expression with the
use of historical and scientific data
when you’re writing nonfiction history
you can’t say well how would this person
have acted in this circumstance but in
this I could really do that I could take
William Laughlin and I could say well
here is a man who has expressed these
points of view
how would he behave when faced with
these sets of challenges the result was
I came away knowing more about the
period that I would have had I written a
straight line fiction piece the anatomy
of deception looks at pretty specific
turning points in modern medicine so
what parallels can we grasp with
contemporary medicine in 1883 which is
six years before the book was sent The
Moth the foremost anatomist in America
was indicted for despoiling graves
because autopsy was illegal and he
almost went to jail and they passed an
Anatomy Act understanding that you
weren’t going to stop on top see that
you maybe should manage change a little
bit right now we’re dealing with the
same thing with things like cloning if
history has shown us anything is that
human beings have this insatiable need
to find out and somebody is going to
clone a human being it isn’t a question
of whether we can decide whether or not
someone will do it but when someone does
it and the way it’s done can we manage
change in terms of things that make life
better all I can say is if you ask
someone from the 16th century about the
20th the 20th century 21st century and
discussed some of the changes they would
say well this is a violation this is
against God there was a strong feeling
in earlier centuries you shouldn’t cure
disease because disease was God’s will
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