'A Chameleon of Sorts: Autobiographical Vignettes' by Peter Karl Lewin

  • Lewin, Peter Karl, b.1935.
Date:
2004
Reference:
MS.8369
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Spiral-bound word-processed document (plus CD-R), including scanned images, 148ff.

Contents:

Prologue (f.5)

Chapter 1: Jerusalem (ff.6-9)

Chapter 2: Egypt, the eternal land of the Nile... (ff. 10-13)

Chapter 3: Alexandria, Alexander the Great Legacy (ff. 14-17)

Chapter 4: The people of the land, Egypt's enduring poor (ff. 18-19)

Chapter 5: The post war years, Egypt's national rebirth (ff. 20-25)

Chapter 6: Victoria College, an educational jewel in a foreign land (ff. 26-33)

Chapter 7: Postwar wanderlust (ff. 34-37)

Chapter 8: Worsley House Hotel, encounters in a London boarding house (ff. 38-39)

Chapter 9: St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London (ff. 40-47)

Chapter 10: Medical Baptism, my initiation in the practice of medicine (ff. 48-52)

Chapter 11: The saga of a Canadian Army Medical Officer (ff. 53-63)

Chapter 12: London interlude, 1964 (ff. 64-66)

Chapter 13: Toronto the Good! (ff. 67-68)

Chapter 14: Time out in Germany, 1978-1980 (ff. 69-71)

Chapter 15: Diersburg in Schwarzwald (ff. 72-74)

Chapter 16: My ongoing military activities (ff. 75-80)

Chapter 17: 'Mummies' that I have known (ff. 81-87)

Chapter 18: 'Djedmaatesank', an ancient Egyptian's painful death (ff. 88-90)

Chapter 19: Sioux Outlook (ff. 91-97)

Chapter 20: The pleasures of clinical practice (ff. 98-101)

Chapter 21: Final Sundry Recollections (ff. 102-109)

The Last Word (ff. 110-111)

Appendix:

A) Achievements (ff. 113-116)

B) Medical Curriculum (ff. 117-128)

C) Peer reviewed publications (ff. 129-133)

D) Peer reviewed correspondence, letters and abstracts (ff. 134-141)

E) Short biography (ff. 142-143)

F) Military biography (ff. 144-146)

Extract from Canadian Who's Who 2004 (f. 147)

Publication/Creation

2004

Physical description

1 file

Acquisition note

Given by Dr Lewin to the library at Wellcome Collection in February 2005

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Accession number

  • 1327