Dr Coulson Medical Opinion: Selected Essays, 1978-1980

xvi, 236pp. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. There is a little mottling on cloth, corners and spine tips gently rounded. Bookshop stamp on front free endpaper, previous owner’s name on title page, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, significantly shelf worn, rubbed and a little chapped on edges, short closed tear from upper edge. A collection of medical and health related essays from Trinidad’s immediate post independence years, infused with traditions of the aspirant legal and medical professions, packed with nuggets of health information and designed to make ordinary people in the Caribbean more aware of and responsible for their own health. Includes articles on Those Fat People, In Praise of Drinking, Hail Rasta in Jamaica at Least, Pity the Poor Middle Class, Modern Medicine – Health Promotion or Exploitation, The Stroke Specialist, The Real Drug Problem, For a Free Tobago, Inflation and the Human Factor, The Risk of Heart Attack, What We Know about Cancer, Abortion, The Killing of Stanley Abbott, On Suicide, etc. A very hard to find title.