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Author Dean, Geoffrey.

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

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Includes index.
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.
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.
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Subject Dean, Geoffrey.
Dean, Geoffrey.
Physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Physicians.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Physicians -- South Africa -- Biography.
South Africa.
Physicians.
United Kingdom.
South Africa.
Genre/Form Biography.
Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Dean, Geoffrey. Turnstone. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002 0853237573 9780853237570 (OCoLC)48884732
ISBN 9781781387856 (electronic book)
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0853237670 (electronic book)
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