Young Cheery's world / Professor Ian Maddocks AM ; edited by Diana Maddocks and David Jenkins
- Bib ID:
- 10022274
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Maddocks, Ian, author
- Printer:
- St Marys, S.A. : Openbook Howden.
- Description:
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- [North Brighton, S.A.] : Ian Maddocks, [2023]
- ©2021
- xiii, 685 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour, facsimiles (some colour, genealogical tables, portraits (some colour ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921755408 (hardback)
- Summary:
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"Ian Maddox graduated in Medicine at Melbourne University in 1955, at the age of 24, with high intentions of service to suffering humanity. His first expression of that intention was to offer himself as a medical missionary. A student placement in Papua New Guinea fostered a broader interest in non-religious service. He went on to undertake a wide range of activities covering many of those open to medical graduates in the second half on the 20th century. These included individual clinical consultation as both a general practitioner and a specialist physician, epidemiological and clinical research, medical education, medical administration and medical journal Editorship. Physicians were recognising the spread of nuclear weapons and their threat of their use as a major public health issue. He joined the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) which advocated abolition as a preventative health measure, becoming Vice President in 1985, the year IPPNW was awarded the Nobel Peace prize. The expansion of cancer medicine had not been accompanied by effective measures to preserve comfort for those dying from malignancy. The example of small Hospice programmes inspired Ian to promote Palliative Care. He advocated for and was appointed to the world's first Chair of Palliative Care at Flinders University in 1988. His leadership, teaching and example helped foster Palliative Care programmes throughout Australia and South East Asia. For this work he was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2002 and in 2013 was named Senior Australian of the Year."--Dust jacket.
- Notes:
- "'Cheery Jack' was a champion race horse, a hurdler, famous for winning the 1941 Grand National Hurdle in record time. He was trained in Mordailloc, at stables that abutted the house the Maddock family occupied from 1639-1944. Ian's brother, Ray, came to know several of the stable boys and was proud of knowing Cheery Jack. When he went to board at Scotch College in 1444, he carried a photograph of Cheery Jack to display on his desk. The, and his rough wartime austerity dressing gown (like a horse rug) provided for him, quickly led him being accorded 'Cheery' as his school nickname. In accordance with custom then current, it became also Ian's nick-name when he entered the boarding house the following year. He became 'Young Cheery', a casual designation which followed him for years."--Dust jacket gate fold.
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- Genre/Form:
- Autobiographies
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