More Than A Puff of Smoke: Chapter Information
Chapter 1: Family Background
Being fourth generation
in a medical family, this chapter describes my medical ancestors, their
culture, and how I learned basic principles of medicine from my father as a
schoolboy.
Chapter 2: The War
Like everyone else of
my generation, the war affected my character and outlook. Everyone either lost
their home or loved ones or feared they might do so. This led to a lack of
confidence and a permissive attitude towards bringing up the post war
generations.
Chapter 3: University
How I made the most of
university both academically and socially
Chapter 4: Canada
Describes a short
career as an intern before starting in general practice. A number of
interesting case histories together with a postgraduate course in hypnosis led
me to develop a theory of the cause of the psychosomatic illnesses that are so
prevalent in general practice.
Chapter 5: Arctic Reminiscences
Outlines experiences
from my fifteen months as a medical officer on the front line of the cold war
on the Distant Early Warning Line.
Chapter 6: Interim Conclusions
Summarizes the theory
of the causes of psychosomatic that I developed from my fathers teaching as a
boy, university teaching and postgraduate clinical experience.
Chapter 7: Heroin & Cannabis
Describes how I came to
test my theories by studying heroin addiction and discovered that cannabis has
a similar effect to hypnosis and was being abused to brainwash the postwar
generations with intellectual and revolutionary socialism.
Chapter 8: The Revolutionaries
Describes some of the
revolutionary socialists I met in the sixties and describes how the
black-market in drugs as we know it today was created.
Chapter 9: The Cultural Revolution
Details how the postwar
generations were encouraged to abandon the British democratic tradition and
replace it with socialist ideology.
Chapter 10:More Case Histories
A number of case histories illustrate the application of my clinical theory to the treatment of convulsions, heart attacks, foetal distress, LSD psychosis and the management of terminal illness. The chapter concludes with details of how
I was forced out of general practice in the NHS.
Chapter 11: Middle East
Describes clinical
practice in a devout Muslim culture
Chapter 12: Gulag Years
Describes the
ever-increasing social isolation experienced as a result of not being paid so
that I eventually came to live in virtual solitary confinement as if in a
gulag.
Chapter 13: Psychotropic Drugs
Enlarges on my
experience of psychotropic drugs and the light they shed on the spirit world.
Chapter 14: Two Expeditions
Describes an
anthropological expedition into the gay culture in London and another to
Brazil.
Chapter 15: Court Cases
How the police
attempted to liquidate me by attempting to drive me to suicide with ever more outrageous,
trumped up charges.
Chapter 16: Council Estate
Outlines my experience
of exploiting an opportunity to study the juvenile delinquents on a problem
housing estate.
Chapter 17: Some Conclusions
Chapters 18, 19 & 20
The favourite topics
for popular debate are religion, politics and sex. The last three chapters
outline my own views on these matters.
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