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"Dr James Barry was many things. He was a pistol-toting dueller, an irascible grudge-holder, a vegetarian, an obsessive cleaner - and a brilliant, humane military surgeon who served throughout the British empire, travelled the world with a small menagerie of animals, and advocated for public health reform. Barry was also a transgender man living in the Victorian era, a time when the term 'transgender' was unknown in Western thought ... The poems of The Surgeon's Brain imagine Barry's inner worlds and the historical and social pressures that he resisted"--Publisher's website.