Good health : stories from the lives of pioneers in the health services

Cancer research ; A consultant's memories ; Doctor in the Antarctic ; Training as a nurse at Plymouth in the war ; Public health in peace and war ; Psychiatric hospital attendant ; Thirty four years in midwifery ; A queen's nurse looks back ; Founder of St Columba's hospice, Edinburgh ; District catering manager ; Hospital pharmacist ; Anaesthetist ; Refugee, nurse and director of research ; Research in war and peace ; Royal army medical corps ; Medical missionary ; Hospital chaplain ; Pioneer in occupational therapy ; Hospital porter ; Ambulanceman ; Working in general practice ; Doctors' receptionist ; District nurse in Cumbria ; Dentist at Kendal ; Hospital matron

This book is a collection of twenty five stories of the lives and working conditions of the variety of people in the medical services who, earlier in the century, laid the foundations of the National Health Service.