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The Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal by bestselling author Brandy Schillace. She writes: "In Ms. Skuse’s expert and frequently humorous telling, Renaissance medicine comes to life in all its gory and weird splendor. She offers us a glimpse of the medical marketplace at its birth but also provides us with a distant mirror. Here we see hawkers and healers, experimenters and extremists, in a field every bit as raucous, competitive, risky

Alanna has been appearing on podcasts including Dan Snow's History Hit, Not Just the Tudors, Talking Tudors and more. For a full list with links, check out the portfolio page - or play a sneak preview of Talking Tudors here.

Alanna's book The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack has been reviewed by The Sunday Times, who called it a 'rollicking history of Renaissance medicine'. The full-page review, by historian Dan Jones, praised Alanna for treading a 'thoughtful line between the weird and the touching' and for bringing a 'deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit'. He also noted that the book 'lives or does on the specimens she pulls from the archives. Here, happily, she knocks i