Based on the memoirs of a Pearl Harbor survivor. Letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned.
Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, Catherine Merit strives to fit into a world filled with prejudice, hatred and violence where she is forced to kill a man in order to save herself. Third book of the Indignities Series.
A physician, always a writer of science, but now author of a biographical novel of Claude Bernard, 19th century medical scientist.
Background
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What does an academic physician do when he retires: gardening, travel and tennis are surely not enough. I had written during all of my professional life - but scientifically and with a view to educating students and the general public. Always fascinated by the evolution of medicine and its human background, I decided to probe the life of Claude Bernard. He was my inspiration as a medical student, and I had passed on my enthusiasm in my teaching of my students during four decades in Australia and the UK.
I retired to France, there better to research not only his work, but his life. I discovered so much that I didn't know previously: intrigues, conflicts and controversies and a remarkable interaction of life events and discovery. I decided that a simple biography could not do full justice to the theme: there were gaps which had to be closed and I did this by writing a biographical novel.
This is the result.
Birth Place
Vienna, Austria
Accomplishments
British Medical Association Award (PatientWise information database for patients).
Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Royal Society of Medicine
Lister Medal for clinical surgery.
Contact Information
529, che de Peire Luche
Roquefort les Pins 06330
France