The turnstone : a doctor's story / Geoffrey Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, Geoffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical research personnel--Biography.

Medical research personnel.

Physicians--South Africa--Biography.

Physicians.

Physicians--Great Britain--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1: The Seed and the Soil; 2: School; 3: Medical School; 4: Bomber Command; 5: Peace; 6: South Africa; 7: Practice and Lauries Bay; 8: Porphyria's Lover; 9: The Curse of the Pharaohs; 10: Lung Cancer; 11: The Turkish Epidemic of Porphyria; 12: Smoke; 13: Porphyria: The Master Family Tree; 14: King George III and the Royal Malady; 15: Multiple Sclerosis; 16: Arrested!; 17: Ireland; 18: The Medico-Social Research Board; 19: Notebook and Shoe Leather Epidemiology; 20: Alcohol, Heroin and AIDS; 21: China; 22: Retirement and a Shotgun Marriage

23: Cyprus,Turkey and Spain24: Inshallah - God Willing; 25: My Family and Personal Life; 26: A Heart Attack: What Does It All Mean?; 27: The End of the Story; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

ISBN:

1-78138-785-0

1-84631-429-1

OCLC:

476209454