Finally, thank you as always to Ben, who has never questioned the importance of my work to me, but who has built us a life into which it fits.
Further Reading
The following is a list of works which were particularly useful in the writing of this book. Much of my reading was done at the Wellcome Library. It is a wonderful place, and I recommend it to everyone.
PART I
Bleich, Alan Ralph, The Story of X-rays: From Röntgen to Isotopes, Dover Publications, 1960
Glasser, Otto, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the Early History of the Röntgen Rays, Norman Publishing, 1989
Kevles, Bettyann, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century, Rutgers University Press, 1997
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, “On a New Kind of Rays” (trans. Arthur Stanton from the Sitzungsberichte der Würzburger Physik-medic Gesellschaft, 1895), Nature, 23 January 1896
PART II
Anzieu, Didier, Freud’s Self Analysis (trans. Peter Graham), Hogarth Press, 1986
Freud, Sigmund (ed. Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, Ernst Kris), The Origins of Psycho-Analysis: Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes, 1887–1902 (trans. Eric Mosbacher and James Strachey), Imago, 1954
Freud, Sigmund, Case Histories, Dora and Little Hans, Pelican, 1977
Gay, Peter, Freud: A Life for Our Time, Anchor Books, 1989
Symington, Neville, The Analytic Experience: Lectures from the Tavistock, Free Association Books, 1986
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth, Anna Freud, Macmillan, 1989
INTERLUDE
Ebenstein, Joanna, The Anatomical Venus, Thames & Hudson, 2016
PART III
“An Account of the Performing of the Caesarean Operation, with remarks, by Mr Henry Thomson, Surgeon to the London Hospital, Communicated by Dr Hunter,” Medical Observations and Inquiries, 4, 1779
Hunter, John, Letters from the Past: From John Hunter to Edward Jenner, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1976
Moore, Wendy, The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery, Bantam, 2005
Thornton, John Leonard, Jan Van Rymsdyk: Medical Illustrator of the Eighteenth Century, Oleander Press, 1981
About the Author
Jessie Greengrass was born in 1982. She studied philosophy at Cambridge and London, where she now lives with her partner and two children. Her story collection, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, won the Edge Hill Prize 2016 and a Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the PFD/Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Sight is her first novel, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018.
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