Review in Wall Street Journal

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 and expensive as it is today. At the same time, readers will encounter surprising characters in a richly researched and atmospheric history of the medical Renaissance."