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Growing Into Medicine

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Medicine in the twentieth century underwent many dramatic and exciting changes, as new drugs and treatments were discovered, new theories explored, and the role of women in society as well as in the workplace was transformed. Ruth Skrine's life and working career mirror these revolutions, as she is persuaded by her fiery mother to train as a doctor, a career both Ruth's parents had taken up with enthusiasm. After an early spell in general practice, Ruth finds her true metier in family planning and psychosexual medicine, becoming passionate about the need to understand the mind and body as one entity and for doctors to listen with their eyes and emotions as well as their ears. In this profound and poetic memoir of a long and fulfilling working life, as well as a potentially turbulent marriage that became a true love affair, Ruth Skrine has reached deep into her own psyche and produced a flowing narrative full of insight and powerful imagination.

Both Ruth Skrine's parents were doctors. Ruth's first career ambition was to be a nurse, but her mother would not hear of it and insisted she train as a doctor. So Ruth spent a long and fulfilling career in medicine, working in general practice, often moving house with her prison governor husband and her daughter, and eventually becoming a specialist in family planning and psychosexual medicine. She was chair of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine for three years, and led training groups for doctors under its aegis, as well as editing a series of books on the subject and writing one herself, Blocks and Freedoms in Sexual Medicine. Since her retirement she has gained an MA in creative writing and has written poetry, short stories, and a novel in addition to this memoir.


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Publisher: Book Guild Publishing

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  • ISBN: 9781910298374
  • Release date: August 28, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781910298374
  • File size: 542 KB
  • Release date: August 28, 2014

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Medicine in the twentieth century underwent many dramatic and exciting changes, as new drugs and treatments were discovered, new theories explored, and the role of women in society as well as in the workplace was transformed. Ruth Skrine's life and working career mirror these revolutions, as she is persuaded by her fiery mother to train as a doctor, a career both Ruth's parents had taken up with enthusiasm. After an early spell in general practice, Ruth finds her true metier in family planning and psychosexual medicine, becoming passionate about the need to understand the mind and body as one entity and for doctors to listen with their eyes and emotions as well as their ears. In this profound and poetic memoir of a long and fulfilling working life, as well as a potentially turbulent marriage that became a true love affair, Ruth Skrine has reached deep into her own psyche and produced a flowing narrative full of insight and powerful imagination.

Both Ruth Skrine's parents were doctors. Ruth's first career ambition was to be a nurse, but her mother would not hear of it and insisted she train as a doctor. So Ruth spent a long and fulfilling career in medicine, working in general practice, often moving house with her prison governor husband and her daughter, and eventually becoming a specialist in family planning and psychosexual medicine. She was chair of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine for three years, and led training groups for doctors under its aegis, as well as editing a series of books on the subject and writing one herself, Blocks and Freedoms in Sexual Medicine. Since her retirement she has gained an MA in creative writing and has written poetry, short stories, and a novel in addition to this memoir.


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