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The Whistle-BlowerThe Whistle-Blower : The Story of One Man's Battle Against the Medical Establishment.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : University of Buckingham Press, The, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (203 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781789551020
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Whistle-BlowerThe Whistle-BlowerDDC classification:
  • 174.28
LOC classification:
  • R489.P246 .S453 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Professor Martin Gore -- Preface by Sir Anthony Seldon -- Preface by Joanna Seldon -- Introduction: When doctors become torturers: why the whistle had to blow -- Chapter One: From Lomza to Liverpool: a healer's hinterland -- Chapter Two: Roots and branches: a family in search of home -- Chapter Three: Prejudice and pride: a doctor at war and peace -- Chapter Four: Guru and showman: a great teacher at work -- Chapter Five: Breaking the silence: a rebel and his cause -- Chapter Six: The whistle blows: the book and the storm -- Chapter Seven: The patient's champion, the doctor's conscience: a career in controversy -- Chapter Eight: Gratitude and solitude: a prophet honoured and a man alone -- Conclusion: The Pappworth legacy: compassion, courage, attention -- Afterword: Our father, Maurice Pappworth -- Index.
Summary: Whistle-blowers tend not to be very popular. Maurice Pappworth's whistle was in the form of Human Guinea Pigs, the controversial book published in 1967 which examined unethical medical experimentation on humans and identified the researchers and institutions responsible.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Professor Martin Gore -- Preface by Sir Anthony Seldon -- Preface by Joanna Seldon -- Introduction: When doctors become torturers: why the whistle had to blow -- Chapter One: From Lomza to Liverpool: a healer's hinterland -- Chapter Two: Roots and branches: a family in search of home -- Chapter Three: Prejudice and pride: a doctor at war and peace -- Chapter Four: Guru and showman: a great teacher at work -- Chapter Five: Breaking the silence: a rebel and his cause -- Chapter Six: The whistle blows: the book and the storm -- Chapter Seven: The patient's champion, the doctor's conscience: a career in controversy -- Chapter Eight: Gratitude and solitude: a prophet honoured and a man alone -- Conclusion: The Pappworth legacy: compassion, courage, attention -- Afterword: Our father, Maurice Pappworth -- Index.

Whistle-blowers tend not to be very popular. Maurice Pappworth's whistle was in the form of Human Guinea Pigs, the controversial book published in 1967 which examined unethical medical experimentation on humans and identified the researchers and institutions responsible.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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