A Life in Medicine and the Arts

A Life in Medicine and the Arts

by Henry Fraser
A Life in Medicine and the Arts

A Life in Medicine and the Arts

by Henry Fraser

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Overview

Henry Fraser’s entertaining autobiography starts with tales of a unique childhood growing up at the local governance centre of a rural parish in Barbados, where most parishioners visited the offices of his parents at the family home. This rich community involvement had a profound influence on his life of service. Sir Henry describes why he chose to study medicine at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, and so became a passionate West Indian. After specialization and PhD studies in London, he returned to Barbados and helped to build better health care there. He promoted rational therapeutics regionally and globally, working with PAHO and WHO, and his research centre and wide-ranging research have greatly benefited the Caribbean. His passion for teaching, patient care, mentoring and management shows throughout the book.

 

Sir Henry has been described as the Renaissance man of Barbados: in addition to his remarkable medical career, he has been public orator for Barbados and for the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, and an independent senator in the Barbados Senate (where he discovered the reasons for the syndrome he labelled Government’s Implementation Deficit Disorder or GIDD). His other lifelong passions have been art, architectural history and heritage preservation, and writing. His autobiography makes fascinating reading: he is a natural story teller and, as he often says, “History is his story.” The book is replete with captivating anecdotes and is illustrated with some of his paintings.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789766530334
Publisher: Canoe Press
Publication date: 11/24/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 374
File size: 11 MB
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About the Author

Henry Fraser is Professor Emeritus, founding director of the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, and founding dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. He is the author of numerous medical and non-medical publications. 

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms  /  ix

Foreword by Sir George Alleyne  /  xi

Preface  /  xv

Introduction  /  1

1. Childhood  /  7

2. Our Family, the Whole Parish of St John  /  14

3. Schooldays  /  24

4. Country Boys Move to Town  /  31

5. Reflections on the Lodge School  /  35

6. The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica: Of Freshman’s Week, Toothbrushes and Student Royalty  /  46

7. The Trials, Trauma and Thrills of Second MB  /  51

8. London: The Right Place at the Right Time  /  62

9. London to Delos and Back in One Piece, Surprisingly  /  68

10. Back to Jamaica  /  73

11. Actually Studying  /  80

12. Home to Barbados  /  85

13. Internship  /  92

14. Jamaica Again  /  97

15. Back to London  /  107

16. Returning Home: First to Jamaica, My Second Home  /  119

17. Barbados: A Permanent Home at Last  /  125

18. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital: Challenges and Opportunities  /  136

19. Clinical Pharmacology and Research: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Region and the World  /  150

 20. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Health Care and Politics  /  163

21. Some University Roles (Especially Talking)  /  170

22. The Multiple Roles of Clinical Specialty Practice  /  181

23. Achieving the Impossible Dream: The Birth of the Chronic Disease Research Centre  /  190

24. The Rising Star: The Adolescence of the Chronic Disease Research Centre  /  203

25. The Maturity of the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre  /  208

26. The Deanship  /  213

27. The Challenge of Building a Full Faculty of Medical Sciences  /  219

28. Meditations on Medical Care in the Caribbean and the University of the West Indies  /  232

29. Carrying the Baton for Historic Preservation  /  240

30. Historic Preservation and the Barbados National Trust  /  248

31.World Heritage and Our Delinquency  /  258

32. The Barbados-Carolina Connection  /  264

33. Heritage Tourism: Pride and Prejudice  /  268

34. Independent Senator: Reluctant Politician  /  278

35. An Alternative Career in Art  /  284

36. Reflections on Heroes and Mentors  /  289

37. The Urge to Write  /  298

38. Final Reflections  /  307

Epilogue  /  316

Appendix 1. Citation on the Award of the Caribbean Health Research Council Award of Excellence, 2006, by Professor Peter Figueroa  /  319

Appendix 2. Citation for Sir Garfield Sobers: Honorary Degree, University of the West Indies, 1992  /  325

Appendix 3. A Sample of Publications, Medical and Non-Medical  /  330

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