Sight

by Jessie Greengrass

  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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