A Wilder Life
Journey of An Adventuring Doctor
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2020
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA (Verlag)
978-1-77619-060-7 (ISBN)
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA (Verlag)
978-1-77619-060-7 (ISBN)
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Dr Joan Louwrens was always drawn to wild places, which were balm to her soul. When her husband died, leaving her alone with two small daughters to raise, she threw herself wholeheartedly into ‘adventure medicine’, seeking out the world’s most remote corners – on land and at sea – to practise her healing, both her own and others.
Working in wild places from the Kruger Park to the Australian Outback, the Atlantic Ocean islands, and both the south and north poles, ‘Doctor Joan’ dealt with a vast range of medical issues, from rabies to deep-vein thrombosis, childbirth to wisdom-tooth extraction, catatonia to depression.
Showing an eagerness to learn and a humility that isn’t always a given in her profession, and with a wry eye and a sympathetic outlook, Joan Louwrens has written a memoir that’s a poignant and often funny story of a life lived to the full.
Working in wild places from the Kruger Park to the Australian Outback, the Atlantic Ocean islands, and both the south and north poles, ‘Doctor Joan’ dealt with a vast range of medical issues, from rabies to deep-vein thrombosis, childbirth to wisdom-tooth extraction, catatonia to depression.
Showing an eagerness to learn and a humility that isn’t always a given in her profession, and with a wry eye and a sympathetic outlook, Joan Louwrens has written a memoir that’s a poignant and often funny story of a life lived to the full.
Joan Louwrens is a medical doctor with additional qualifications in General Medicine, Anaesthetics, and Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She has had the privilege of working on all seven continents and a few oceans between them, sometimes in a standard hospital setting, but more frequently as a bicycle expedition or ship’s doctor. Africa, however, always pulls her back. She has two daughters who have inherited her wandering gene. When she isn’t travelling, she lives in Knysna.
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.10.2020 |
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Verlagsort | Johannesburg |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 233 mm |
Gewicht | 500 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
ISBN-10 | 1-77619-060-2 / 1776190602 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-77619-060-7 / 9781776190607 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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