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The Class of 1960

Michael Baum

KEY SELLING POINTS
A story of young doctors working though the 1660’s.
The decade 1960-1970 was very critical in the developments of health care in the UK.
The important milestones of the 1960’s are described through the fictional careers of four young men.

In 1955 four young men bond over a cadaver in an anatomy class while doing their medical training, and then
take off in different directions.

Alastair ends up as a GP in rural Scotland and is involved in the first antismoking campaign, the prescription of
the contraceptive pill, the distribution of the oral vaccine for poliomyelitis, and screening for cervical cancer.
Dylan, the son of a coal miner in south Wales, ends up as an epidemiologist and contributes to the discovery of
the links of coal dust to lung and stomach cancer amongst coal miners. He is also present at the Aberfan
disaster.

Matthew trains as a psychiatrist at the pivotal time when Freudian psychoanalysis is being replaced by rational
rather than metaphysical concepts. Huge asylums for the insane are being closed and cruel and futile therapies
are being abandoned.

Peter trains as a surgeon and is involved in the early days of organ transplantation and contributes to the
movement to replace radical mastectomy with kinder treatments, for women with early breast cancer.

Michael Baum qualified in medicine at Birmingham University medical school in 1960 and has held chairs of
surgery at Kings College London, the Institute of Cancer Research and University College London. In the past he
has been President of the British Oncology Association and was awarded the gold medal of the International
College of surgeons for his research into the treatment of breast cancer. On retiring as a professor of surgery
at University College London, he has spent the rest of his career teaching and promoting “Medical Humanities”
including fine art, literature and philosophy.

Publication Date: 28th January 2024 £23.99 ISBN: 9781805141907
Thema subject category: FBA – Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
paperback 216 x 138 mm 288 pp Portrait Author location: London

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