New York, NY (PRWEB) September 04, 2014
Based on 15 years of study and illustrated with dozens of historical (and exclusive) photographs, DR. MÜTTER’S MARVELS: A Accurate Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Contemporary Medicine (Gotham September four, 2014) delves deep into the life of a man who was really ahead of his time.

Written by poet and author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, the book reveals Mütter’s early years as an orphan and time spent studying cutting-edge surgery in Paris, to his struggles to establish himself in Philadelphia amidst the outrageous rivalries amongst his fellow doctors—many of whom publicly mocked Mütter’s philosophies and innovations, including his devotion to pre-and post-operative care, employing anesthesia, and even the sterilization of his tools.

The deluxe eBook edition of DR. MÜTTER’S MARVELS involves more than a single hour of audio in which author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz shares information, stories and insights about Dr. Mütter and his contemporaries that she found in her study but didn’t make it into the printed book.

By way of Mütter’s humanist eyes, we are given a front row seat to the evolution of American medicine: from bleedings and leechings to the standardization of healthcare schools from the discovery of anesthesia to his community’s frustrating resistance to washing hands and sterilizing tools from the unimaginable medical circumstances provoked from the rise of industrialism, to the challenges and innovations birthed as the nation marched toward the Civil War.

Even though he only lived for 47 years, Mütter’s influence within medicine is nonetheless felt, and his legacy lives on with his enormously well-liked namesake museum. And now, with DR. MÜTTER’S MARVELS, his strange, inspiring and untold story can finally be shared.

Highlight Reel 
**Read the Wall Street Journal’s front web page review of Dr. Mütter’s Marvels.
**USA Today mentions Dr. Mütter in “The Week in Books.”
**A.V Club calls Dr. Mütter’s Marvels “narrative non-fiction at its ideal.”
**Study the Asbury Park Press interview with Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz.
**BookPage testimonials Dr. Mütter’s Marvels, calling it “an insightful portrait of a pioneering surgeon and a reminder of how far medicine has come.”
**Read Library Journal’s starred evaluation in the September 1st concern.
**Publishers Weekly announced Dr. Mütter’s Marvels in Galley Talk.
**Read the Publishers Weekly starred assessment of Dr. Mütter’s Marvels, calling Aptowicz’s writing “as complete of life as her topic.” 
**Read Kirkus Testimonials starred assessment of Dr. Mütter’s Marvels, “the author offers an absorbing account of the charismatic surgeon’s life and career as nicely as a vivid appear at the health-related practices and prejudices of his time.”
**Mashable writes “If You Think ‘The Knick’ Individuals Have it Negative … Go Back 50 Years.” 
**Read the Metro Philadelphia interview with Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of six books of poetry (most lately, The Year of No Blunders) as properly as the nonfiction book, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour By means of Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, which Billy Collins wrote “leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful spot on the map of contemporary literature.”

On the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) podcast Art Works, host Josephine Reed introduced Cristin as getting “something of a legend in NYC’s slam poetry scene. She is lively, thoughtful, and approachable looking to engage the audience with her function and deeply committed to the community that art … can generate.”

In July 2010, she was named the 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, where she spent the year researching and writing a book on Thomas Dent Mütter, founder of the Philadelphia’s (in)popular Mütter Museum. She would also be awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and an Amy Clampitt Home residency, both of which helped to help the finishing of this book.

CATCH CRISTIN ON TOUR IN 2014 

9/four/14, Philadelphia, PA: Book Release 
9/five/14, Philadelphia, PA: The Rotunda
9/eight/14, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania 
9/9/14, New York, NY: Urbana Poetry Slam 
9/ten/14 (noon), West Windsor, NJ: Mercer College 
9/10/14 (7pm), Brooklyn, NY: Morbid Anatomy Museum 
9/13/14, New York, NY: Magnet Theater 
9/15/14 (1-3pm), Reddit.com: Reddit AMA 
9/16/14, Philadelphia, PA: Free of charge Library of Philadelphia 
9/19/14, Austin, TX: Bookpeople 
9/24/14, Columbus, OH: Writer’s Block Poetry Slam 
9/25/14, Columbus, OH: Writer’s Block Workshop 
9/26/14, Columbus, OH: Book Loft 
9/28/14, Ann Arbor, MI: Nicola’s Bookstore 
10/four/14, Chicago, IL: Quimby’s Bookstore 
10/five/14, Chicago, IL: Green Mill Poetry Slam 
ten/11/14, Minneapolis, MN: Encyclopedia Show 
10/13/14, Minneapolis, MN: Magers & Quinn Bookseller 
ten/14/14, Minneapolis, MN: Storytelling Show 
10/15/14, Minneapolis, MN: The Loft Literary Center 
ten/16/14, Mankato, MN: University of MN, Mankato 
ten/17/14, Omaha, NE: Louder than a Bomb Workshop 
10/18/14, Omaha, NE: The Bookworm 
ten/18/14, Omaha, NE: Louder than a Bomb Fundraiser 
10/20/14, Iowa City, IA: Prairie Lights Bookstore 
ten/25/14, Austin, TX: Texas Book Festival 
10/26/14, Austin, TX: Texas Book Festival 
11/three/14, Portland, OR: Powell’s City of Books 
11/four/14, Seattle, WA: Seattle Poetry Slam 
11/five/14, Seattle, WA: Rain City Poetry Slam 
11/eight/14, Seattle WA: Elliott Bay Book Company 
11/12/14, Vancouver, CANADA: Vancouver Poetry Slam 
11/13/14, Vancouver, CANADA: Book Warehouse 

Gotham Books | September 2014 | Hardcover | eBook| Deluxe eBook
978-1592408702 | 384 pp
Also obtainable as Penguin Random House Digital Audio