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Richard Gordon

Born

in The United Kingdom

September 15, 1921

Died

August 11, 2017

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Medical Non Fiction

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Richard Gordon is the pen name used by Gordon Ostlere (born Gordon Stanley Ostlere on September 15, 1921), an English surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere has written several novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He is most famous for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme starting with Doctor in the House, and the subsequent film, television and stage adaptations. His The Alarming History of Medicine was published in 1993, and he followed this with The Alarming History of Sex.

Gordon worked as anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital (where he was a medical student) and later as a ship's surgeon and as assistant editor of the Bri ...more

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	Doctor in the House 3.82 avg rating — 495 ratings — published 1952 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor at Sea 3.69 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1953 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor at Large 3.71 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1955 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants 3.37 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1993 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor in Love 3.55 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1957 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor in Clover 3.67 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1960 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor On Toast 3.52 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1961 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor and Son 3.81 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1959 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Nature of Matter 4.11 avg rating — 45 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor on the Boil 3.59 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1970 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Pain is never ennobling, only degrading. And do not be afraid, sir, that there will ever be too little of it in the world to spare mankind its "purification". There will always be human groans enough to fill the sails of that argument. But I am a practical Christian. Unlike you, sir, I relieve suffering, wherever I see it. Your ladies would not object to warm baths, to mitigate labour pains? To opium? It is the same prinicple.”
― Richard Gordon, The Sleep of Life

tags: pain, suffering

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“Os casais que concebem filhos que não desejam refletem os casais que querem filhos mas não podem ter. O problema destes últimos tem sido resolvido pelos ginecologistas com menor alarde e esforço. As pessoas autoritárias fazem mais objeções ao fato de as outras fazerem o que elas acham que não deve ser feito, ao invés de procurar realizar o que acham que devem.”
― Richard Gordon, The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants

tags: aborto, autoritarismo, conservadorismo

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“A moral é de modo geral uma expressão da história e da geografia. Qualquer coisa vale, mas não em toda parte. Os hindus não podem beber, mas têm várias mulheres, os cristãos podem se embriagar quantas vezes quiserem, mas estão presos, como disse Saki, "ao costume ocidental de uma mulher e quase nenhuma amante". Nos EUA, em 1933 era errado brindar o aniversário de Washington, mas em 1934 era um gesto patriótico. Nas ilhas Fiji, na década de 1830, até o canibalismo era socialmente aceitável, separando-se o cérebro, como um petisco, para as mulheres.”
― Richard Gordon, The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants

tags: moral

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