{"product_id":"one-man-in-his-time-adventures-in-medical-practice-by-g-e-waterworth","title":"ONE MAN IN HIS TIME: Adventures in Medical Practice by G. E. Waterworth","description":"\u003cp\u003eONE MAN IN HIS TIME: Adventures in Medical Practice \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby George Edwin Waterworth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDESCRIPTION \u003cbr\u003eFormat: small hardcover with dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePublished: Whitcombe \u0026amp; Tombs 1960, 1st edition\u003cbr\u003eSize (mm): 125 w x 185 h x 15 d\u003cbr\u003ePages: 162\u003cbr\u003eSKU: A5L\/2303\/U101\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eABOUT\u003cbr\u003eA notable autobiographical memoir of a Napier doctor who reminiscences of his practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes monochrome images and portrait on title page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONDITION\u003cbr\u003eNear new with only light shelf wear on dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIMAGES\u003cbr\u003eAre of the actual item and depict all need to know detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eREMARKS\u003cbr\u003eScarce in this condition\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unicorn Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55450485358884,"sku":"A5L\/2303\/U101","price":39.95,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1013\/1901\/6740\/files\/72906.jpg?v=1785114056","url":"https:\/\/unicornbooks.co.nz\/products\/one-man-in-his-time-adventures-in-medical-practice-by-g-e-waterworth","provider":"Unicorn Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}