| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| 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 |
| 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 Irelan |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Dean, Geoffrey
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Physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Physicians -- South Africa -- Biography
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Physicians.
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Physicians
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physicians.
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MEDICAL -- Physicians.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
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Physicians
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United Kingdom |
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South Africa |
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Great Britain
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South Africa
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collective biographies.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781781387856 |
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1781387850 |
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9781846314292 |
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1846314291 |
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9780853237679 |
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0853237670 |
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0853237573 |
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9780853237570 |
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