The Turnstone —— A Doctor's Story

----- 翻石鹬：医生的故事

ISBN: 9780853237570 出版年：2001 页码：288 Dean, Geoffrey Liverpool University Press

readable and well illustrated autobiography, he describes how he witnessed Nazi violence in Germany before the second world war, exposed brutality against prison ers in apartheid South Africa, and began valuable epidemiol?gica! research in Ireland. Geoffrey Dean had an inquiring mind from the beginning. When he was a student at Liverpool University before the second world war, he wrote to the richest man he could think of, Nelson Rockefeller, and asked him for money to go to Germany to see for himself what was going on there. To the author's surprise, Rockefeller sent him a cheque for $500. Dean describes how he saw a group of Nazi stormtroopers kicking and jeering at two elderly Jewish men who were being forced to wash a pavement No one paid any attention to Dean's protests. After the war, in which he served in the Royal Air Force, he emigrated to South Africa and set up as a consultant physician in Port Elizabeth. He noticed how rarely he saw a case of multiple sclerosis in white English-speaking South African born patients. It was 11 times as common among European immigrants. He felt that the disease was clearly caused by something the Europeans picked up before coming to South Africa He also started important work on por phyria It was while looking for cases of this disease in the hospital records that he found the notes of four prisoners who had suffered fatal injuries inflicted by prison staff or the police. Dean drew this inhuman behaviour to the attention of the editor of the South