| Description |
1 online resource (385 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Foreword by Sir George Alleyne -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Childhood -- 2. Our Family, the Whole Parish of St John -- 3. Schooldays -- 4. Country Boys Move to Town -- 5. Reflections on the Lodge School -- 6. The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica: Of Freshman’s Week, Toothbrushes and Student Royalty -- 7. The Trials, Trauma and Thrills of Second MB -- 8. London: The Right Place at the Right Time -- 9. London to Delos and Back in One Piece, Surprisingly -- 10. Back to Jamaica |
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11. Actually Studying -- 12. Home to Barbados -- 13. Internship -- 14. Jamaica Again -- 15. Back to London -- 16. Returning Home: First to Jamaica, My Second Home -- 17. Barbados: A Permanent Home at Last -- 18. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital: Challenges and Opportunities -- 19. Clinical Pharmacology and Research: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Region and the World -- 20. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Health Care and Politics -- 21. Some University Roles (Especially Talking) -- Photographs -- 22. The Multiple Roles of Clinical Specialty Practice |
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23. Achieving the Impossible Dream: The Birth of the Chronic Disease Research Centre -- 24. The Rising Star: The Adolescence of the Chronic Disease Research Centre -- 25. The Maturity of the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre -- 26. The Deanship -- 27. The Challenge of Building a Full Faculty of Medical Sciences -- 28. Meditations on Medical Care in the Caribbean and the University of the West Indies -- 29. Carrying the Baton for Historic Preservation -- 30. Historic Preservation and the Barbados National Trust -- 31. World Heritage and Our Delinquency |
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32. The Barbados-Carolina Connection -- 33. Heritage Tourism: Pride and Prejudice -- 34. Independent Senator: Reluctant Politician -- 35. An Alternative Career in Art -- Photographs -- 36. Reflections on Heroes and Mentors -- 37. The Urge to Write -- 38. Final Reflections -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Citation on the Award of the Caribbean Health Research Council Award of Excellence, 2006, by Professor Peter Figueroa -- Appendix 2. Citation for Sir Garfield Sobers: Honorary Degree, University of the West Indies, 1992 -- Appendix 3. A Sample of Publications, Medical and Non-Medical |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789766530334 |
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9766530335 |
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