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Title: | From Surgery: A Long Road to History | Contributor(s): | Weisz, George M (author) | Publication Date: | 2008 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/9315 | Abstract: | I have often been asked to explain my journey from surgeon to medical historian. Although the road was long, I saw both my interests as forms of creative art, complementing one another. Born into a cultural family in Eastern Europe, with classical and operatic music resounding within the walls of our small apartment, and with a respectable library, our happiness lasted until two totalitarian regimes destroyed our family's physical and spiritual health. Medicine was my all-consuming ambition, a vocation displacing everything else. For 37 years, while orthopaedic and spinal surgery preoccupied me entirely, music provided a permanent stimulation and art history a pleasure. Only much later, stabilised in my professional and family environment, could I return to my artistic interests. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Health and History, 10(2), p. 136-139 | Publisher: | Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1839-3314 1442-1771 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 220205 History and Philosophy of Medicine | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | HERDC Category Description: | C2 Non-Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.anzshm.org.au/publications.html |
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