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Butcher / Joyce Carol Oates
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In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, "Father of Gyno-Psychiatry", as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown.(..) As he begins to establish himself as a pionneer of nineteenth-century surgery, Weir's ambition is fuelled by his obsessive fascination with a young Irish identured servant named Brigit, who becomes not only Weir's primary experimental subject, but also the agent of destruction.