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Gordon Charles Cook

Biography

Professor Gordon Charles Cook, DSc, MD, FRCP is a physician with a special interest in tropical and infectious diseases, and a medical historian; he was formerly a Medical Specialist, Royal Nigerian Army; Lecturer in Medicine, Makerere University, Uganda; Professor of Medicine, The University of Zambia; Professor of Medicine, Riyadh University, Saudi Arabia; Professor of Medicine, The University of Papua New Guinea; Visiting Professor of Medicine, The Universities of Basrah and Mosul, Iraq; and Visiting Professor, Quatar.

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Books

National Service Fifty Years Ago: Life of a Medical Conscript in West Africa by
Price: $14.00 USD. Words: 41,100. Language: English. Published: November 18, 2014 by Amolibros. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Healthcare issues, Nonfiction » History » Africa » Western region
This narrative, which took place immediately after Nigerian independence from colonial rule, is Corps officer, serving in the Royal Nigerian Army in newly independent Nigeria. Apart from medical duties, he acquired a great deal of information on the Atlantic slave trade, much of which was centred on the Nigerian coast.
The Rise and Fall of a Medical Specialty: London's Clinical Tropical Medicine by
Price: $14.00 USD. Words: 40,710. Language: English. Published: November 18, 2014 by Amolibros. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Healthcare issues, Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Healthcare issues
Although the London School of Hygiene (and Tropical Medicine) has survived intact, the clinical component has undergone an irreversible downhill trend. This book explores the origins and subsequent decline of what is more appropriately designated colonial medicine.
Health-Care For All: History of a ‘Third-World’ Dilemma by
Price: $14.00 USD. Words: 85,930. Language: English. Published: April 10, 2013 by Amolibros. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Healthcare issues, Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Diseases
The author argues that a balanced viewpoint between curative and preventive medicine was both essential and the only way forward in both developing and developed countries. That is a simple ‘message’ and the underlying theme in this book.

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africa    colonial medicine    curative medicine    diseases    healthcare    healthcare management    history 1960s    hygiene health    lagos    medical care    medical history    medicine and health sciences    national service    nigeria    nigerian history    preventive medicine    royal nigerian army    school of hygiene    third world    tropical diseases    tropical medicine    yaba