I've written before about Dr. Alan Hart (1890-1962), the transgender radiologist, novelist, and medical researcher from the Pacific Northwest. Today I'm reporting back on his novel The Undaunted (1936), a rich historical document with a couple of flagrant self-inserts and an obsessive preoccupation with meat.

The Undaunted is a novel about medical research and infighting among doctors. Richard Cameron (40ish, tall, suffers no fools, grins on every page) is a passionate researcher bent on finding...