On the Edge of the Scalpel
15 hrs. 57 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Audrey Blake
Author
Audrey Blake
Narrator
Elena Delver
Narrator
Elena Delver
Nora Bidey, a student of the gifted surgeon Horace Croft, feels like an outsider in a man’s world. But she has no choice: at prestigious the University of Bologna, where she studies medicine, all around her are only men—irritated that a girl has dared to claim a “non-female” profession, since, in their opinion, she should stay at home and have children.
Nora’s life changes when she grows close to Magdalina Marenko—the only female doctor among the faculty. Together they try to improve on an innovative cesarean operation. The method is fatally risky; the work is exhausting, but it’s the men’s contempt that weighs even heavier. Many are willing to deny help even to their own wives just to keep a self-assured upstart out of the operating room. Added to all this is her longing for London, where her beloved Daniel and a aging mentor still remain. Fighting on multiple fronts at once, Nora stubbornly presses on toward her goal—to change the order of things and defend the right to do the work she loves.
Nora’s life changes when she grows close to Magdalina Marenko—the only female doctor among the faculty. Together they try to improve on an innovative cesarean operation. The method is fatally risky; the work is exhausting, but it’s the men’s contempt that weighs even heavier. Many are willing to deny help even to their own wives just to keep a self-assured upstart out of the operating room. Added to all this is her longing for London, where her beloved Daniel and a aging mentor still remain. Fighting on multiple fronts at once, Nora stubbornly presses on toward her goal—to change the order of things and defend the right to do the work she loves.
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