The University of the West Indies Press
A Life in Medicine and the Arts
Henry Fraser
A Life in Medicine and the Arts
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Henry Fraser’s entertaining autobiography starts with tales of a unique childhood growing up at the local governance centre of a rural parish in Barbados, where most parishioners visited the offices of his parents at the family home. This rich community involvement had a profound influence on his life of service. Sir Henry describes why he chose to study medicine at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, and so became a passionate West Indian. After specialization and PhD studies in London, he returned to Barbados and helped to build better health care there. He promoted rational therapeutics regionally and globally, working with PAHO and WHO, and his research centre and wide-ranging research have greatly benefited the Caribbean. His passion for teaching, patient care, mentoring and management shows throughout the book.

Sir Henry has been described as the Renaissance man of Barbados: in addition to his remarkable medical career, he has been public orator for Barbados and for the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, and an independent senator in the Barbados Senate (where he discovered the reasons for the syndrome he labelled Government’s Implementation Deficit Disorder or GIDD). His other lifelong passions have been art, architectural history and heritage preservation, and writing. His autobiography makes fascinating reading: he is a natural story teller and, as he often says, “History is his story.” The book is replete with captivating anecdotes and is illustrated with some of his paintings.

Language
English
ISBN
9789766530334
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
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
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
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
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