The Surgeon of Crowthorne - Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester

that does neither of them any favours, sensationalising one and making the other appear less important in contrast. All this with the bare minimum of actual surviving evidence! Yet Simon Winchester does not let this bother him and is able to let us know what both men were actually feeling, in the worst possible way….without letting us see the evidence for ourselves. He states that the ‘sternly worded Victorian ward notes of the day hint that the temper of …{Dr Minor} had somehow started to turn’ (p133), without quoting any of this for us to see and judge for ourselves. We are expected instead to rely on the interpretation of Winchester without questioning. There are no ...