The Turnstone

A Doctor’s Story

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

The Turnstone is a vivid and wide-ranging account of more than sixty years of travel, medical research and clinical practice. Geoffrey Dean was born in Wales in 1918 and trained as a doctor in Liverpool before serving with distinction as a medical officer in Bomber Command. After the war he moved to South Africa, where he lived with his family for the next twenty years. During this period Dean studied the epidemiology of porphyria, a disease that can cause paralysis; his book The Porphyrias was first published in 1963. Geoffrey Dean became Director of the Medico-Social Research Board of Ireland in 1968. The author’s research has taken him around the world, and besides his research findings, the book has a rich array of anecdotes and adventures, ranging from the threat of imprisonment in South Africa to a period spent as the personal physician to the multi-millionaire Governor of the Fiji Islands.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-02-01
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9780853237679

Utforska kategorier

Medicin: allmänt inom Medicin
Självbiografier och Memoarer inom Biografier

Mer om författaren

Geoffrey Dean retired as director of the Medico-Social Research Board in 1985. In 2003, he was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to medicine.

Recensioner i media

... a bracing tonic of a read from the pen of an action man.Books Ireland

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Sir Richard DollAcknowledgements1. The Seed and the Soil2. School3. Medical School4. Bomber Command5. Peace6. South Africa7. Practice and Lauries Bay8. Porphyria’s Lover9. The Curse of the Pharaohs10. Lung Cancer11. The Turkish Epidemic of Porphyria12. Smoke13. Porphyria: The Master Family Tree14. King George III and the Royal Malady15. Multiple Sclerosis16. Arrested!17. Ireland18. The Medico-Social Research Board19. Notebook and Shoe Leather Epidemiology20. Alcohol, Heroin and AIDS21. China22. Retirement and a Shotgun Marriage23. Cyrpus, Turkey and Spain24. Inshallah – God Willing25. My Family and Personal Life26. A Heart Attack: What Does It All Mean?27. The End of the SotryIndex