"The poetry of history lies in the quasi miraculous fact then once, on this earth, once on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves will shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow"

                                                                                                                               George Macaulay Trevelyan
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At the age of fifteen, when I had to choose between 'sciences' or 'arts' A-levels, I opted for Biology, Chemistry and Physics, which led me to Medicine. My alternative choice had been History and English, and now, fifty-five years later, I am pursuing that path. At Cambridge I did Archaeology and Anthropology in my third year, stimulated by journeys to Latin America in search of lost civilisations. These inspired my later involvement in overseas medicine, in Uganda and The Gambia. My return to History was facilitated by a six month sabbatical from Medicine in 2002. These publications arise from my interests in History and Anthropology.  

You can obtain a copy of this history of Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, where I worked for fifteen years, at Kea Publishing​

You can purchase a copy of this history of human milk and how babies have been fed from antiquity to modern times from  Amazon 

Learn more about Thomas Weaver (1776-1844) and see his pictures at thomasweaverofshrewsbury.com and buy a copy at  Amazon

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I wrote chapters for these four publications:

James Young Simpson -
​Lad o' Pairts
Published in 2011 to mark the bicentenary of the birth of the great Edinburgh obstetrician who discovered chloroform. Obtainable from Kea Publishing ​

A Concise History of Paediatric Gastroenterology
Published in 2004 this is an account of the origins and development of the medical specialty that deals with the digestive diseases of children

The Resurgence of Breastfeeding 1975-2000
This witness seminar, held in 2007, brought together nutritional scientists, paediatricians, biologists and others interested in the tensions between breast and bottle feeding  

This History of the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) was published in 2018 to mark its fiftieth anniversary, and may be found at  JPGN
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Publications in History and Anthropology

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​You can listen to me talking about the history of weaning here