A surgeon's century : the life of Sir Ian Fraser DSO FRCS / / by Richard Clarke

• Autore: Clarke R. S. J (Richard Samuel Jessop)
• Pubblicazione: Belfast : , : Ulster Historical Foundation, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 617.092
• Soggetto topico: Surgeons - Northern Ireland
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Surgeon's Century: The Life of Sir Ian Fraser; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; list of Illustration; Foreword; Introduction and Acknowledgments; 1. Antecedents; 2. School and university; 3. Surgical training and early years; 4. The Second World War - service in a bchapter00water; 5. Penicillin - North Africa and Italy; 6. Normandy; 7. India; 8. Return from the war; 9. Honours and organizations outside the hospitals; 10. Ian Fraser as writer and lecturer; 11. Growing old; Appendix 1: Published writings of Sir Ian Fraser; Appendix 2: Medals, decorations and honours ; Sources and referencesIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: Ulster has produced an impressive number of surgeons who have gained world-wide renown. None has been more celebrated, or more deserving of a biography than Sir Ian Fraser whose life spanned almost the whole of the 20th century. Following a brillant university career, Fraser's training occupied most of the inter-war years. As with most innovatory surgeons, his career really flourished in war-time conditions. During the Second World War, he was at the forefront of the early field trials of a drug that would benefit the whole of mankind - penecillin - first, in the crucial allied victory in N
• Titolo autorizzato: A surgeon's century
• ISBN: 1-908448-41-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157419703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II