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The Turnstone: A Doctor's Story
Geoffrey Dean
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Description for The Turnstone: A Doctor's Story
Paperback. Features the author's research findings, and his 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. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGA; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 468.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780853237679
SKU
V9780853237679
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Ref
99-50
About Geoffrey Dean
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.
Reviews for The Turnstone: A Doctor's Story
... a bracing tonic of a read from the pen of an action man. Books Ireland