There is so much passion, bigotry, terror, pain, love and fear connected to our views on the human body, knowledge about its creation, form and workings, that stories almost write themselves. Medical discovery and experiment is an entire subject on its own. Your view has to depend enormously upon whether you, or someone you love, is the patient who is dying, or the possible victim of an experiment which may succeed, or fail! Or if you are the doctor who may, or may not, have discovered the cure for some terrible disease. What cost is acceptable? What experiments are acceptable, what is not? What is the price of progress? Is the soul immortal? What heroic efforts should be made to preserve life at any price, or of any quality?
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New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling historical novelist Anne Perry on the subject of medicine in historical novels at http://writinghistoricalnovels.com/2013/01/07/medicine-in-historical-novels-by-anne-perry
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