{"id":2002,"date":"2014-11-01T08:56:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T16:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2014-11-01T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T16:56:15","slug":"review-doctor-mtters-marvels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"Review: Doctor M&uuml;tter&#8217;s Marvels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparing <em>Doctor M\u00fctter&#8217;s Marvels<\/em>, Cristin Aptowicz has taken the most important first step in writing an interesting biography &#8211; choosing an interesting subject.\u00a0 Thomas Dent M\u00fctter is a dashing, slightly eccentric physician who lived a rags-to-riches success story and left behind a respected museum that is both a curiosity and a serious boon to science.\u00a0 What could go wrong from there?<\/p>\n<p>Lots of things could, but none of them do.\u00a0 Aptowicz writes a tight, informative book that keeps the story moving while communicating both what&#8217;s interesting about M\u00fctter personally &#8211; his drive, skill, and compassion &#8211; and historically &#8211; his role in founding an important early medical college, pioneering plastic surgery techniques, and collecting important medical specimens.\u00a0 The resulting volume is a joy to read.<\/p>\n<p>There are some choices I would make differently. For example, Aptowicz spends more time making sure readers know that one of M\u00fctter&#8217;s rivals gets his just desserts than I cared about.\u00a0 These are minor differences of preference.\u00a0 <em>Marvels<\/em> does a great job telling the storing of a fascinating medical pioneer.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparing Doctor M\u00fctter&#8217;s Marvels, Cristin Aptowicz has taken the most important first step in writing an interesting biography &#8211; choosing an interesting subject.\u00a0 Thomas Dent M\u00fctter is a dashing, slightly eccentric physician who lived a rags-to-riches success story and left behind a respected museum that is both a curiosity and a serious boon to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}