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This is the life of a pioneering woman doctor who, graduating in 1937, had by the time of her death in 1974 reached the highest honours of her profession and become a leading public figure. A specialist allergist and paediatrician, Alice Bush was at the vanguard of debates about the provision of health services, attitudes to sexuality, reproductive rights and health education. At the same time she was also a daughter, wife and mother sharing contemporary views about these roles and gradually working out, without support of a prevailing feminist ideology, ways to sustain both aspects of her life. Her story is one of courage, flexibility, imagination and compassion whihc offers much interest to people from different perspectives.
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Jenny Davis
reviewed ALICE: The Making of a Womand Doctor 1914-1974 on January 06, 2013
ALICE: The Making of a Womand Doctor 1914-1974
Author's negative bias presented as objectivity gets somewhat in the way of the information. And, his forst 40 years of life are pretty much dealt with in the first quarter of the book. I realize all the exciting stuff happened after that, but I want to know more about how he became who he was! I suspect psychological intuition is not one of Greenfield's strengths. (He did a good job on the Bill Graham book, but that was an oral bio and besides it was mostly Bill's book).
The one place where the author seems sympathetic to his subject is during the periods of Leary's persecution & incarceration, however much he brought it on himself. Like Lenny Bruce or maybe W Reich, TL put himself somewhat inadvertently in the way of the industrial gov't machine & it ate him.
So this was equally parts informative and frustrating... Only a good read if you're willing to pick through the cowshit to locate the psilocybic mushrooms.
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