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Item Details
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ONE DOCTOR'S ODYSSEY - THE SOCIAL LESION
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| By: |
Sir Donald Acheson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£24.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1845491629 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781845491628 |
| Publisher: |
ARIMA PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
5 May, 2007 |
| Pages: |
250 |
| Synopsis: |
Sir Donald was born in Belfast in 1926; his father was a medical doctor, who specialised in public health, and his mother was the daughter of a Tyneside ship builder. During World War I, Sir Donald's father had been involved in dealing with the epidemic of syphilis which was on such a scale that at one point, it was thought possible it would stop the fighting due to lack of troops. Sixty years later, his precepts that strict confidentiality and speedy treatment without embarrassment were the keystones to success in dealing with sexually transmitted disease became the foundation of the UK's successful challenge to HIV/Aids which, as Chief Medical Officer, Sir Donald directed. Charting his early life, and moving through his career posts in the UK and US and medical research at Oxford, this memoir covers his appointment as CMO of England, with the following advice from a friend to prepare him: 'You'll enjoy this job Donald, there's never a dull moment...but you're going to inevitably lose control of your life, I'm afraid!'The book covers his experiences in Whitehall advising Government on many important issues including those he termed 'The Seven Plagues of Egypt:' HIV/AIDS, Salmonella, Legionellosis, Listeriosis, Botulism, Small Pox and BSE. This book also describes the author's World Health Organisation work in Bosnia during the Humanitarian Crisis in the former Yugoslavia and his later work in Chechnya. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
arima publishing |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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