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| Shopify Unique ID: | 10561106903332 |
| SKU: | A5L/2303/U101 |
| Trademe Reference: | PR467 (29) |
| Category: |
Biographies: New Zealand |
| New / Used: | New |
Description
ONE MAN IN HIS TIME: Adventures in Medical Practice
by George Edwin Waterworth
DESCRIPTION
Format: small hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Whitcombe & Tombs 1960, 1st edition
Size (mm): 125 w x 185 h x 15 d
Pages: 162
SKU: A5L/2303/U101
ABOUT
A notable autobiographical memoir of a Napier doctor who reminiscences of his practice.
Dr. Waterworth operated a long-running clinic out of his surgery on Shakespeare Road in Napier. His autobiography provides invaluable, firsthand observations of community health, colonial-era medical constraints, and the social transformation of the Hawke's Bay region.
The most famous segment of the book details his heroic and harrowing experiences during the catastrophic 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Dr. Waterworth was famously called to the ruins of St. John's Cathedral to aid a woman trapped irrecoverably beneath the debris as fires closed in, bringing national focus to the agonizing choices faced by frontline disaster doctors.
Includes monochrome images and portrait on title page.
CONDITION
Near new with only light shelf wear on dust jacket.
IMAGES
Are of the actual item and depict all need to know detail.
REMARKS
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