Rhodes, Philip, 1922-2002, obstetrician and gynaecologist

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Rhodes, Philip, 1922-2002, obstetrician and gynaecologist

1922-2002

Rhodes was born in Sheffield on 2 May 1922. He was educated at King Edward VII School; Clare College Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in1946. He attained MA, MB, BChir Cantab, FRCS Eng, MRCOG, late Major RAMS. Rhodes career included positions as Consultant Obstetric Physician 1958-1964; Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of London at St Thomas's, 1964-1974; Dean of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, 1968-1974; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Adelaide, 1975-1977; Postgraduate Dean of Medicine, University of Newcastle on Tyne, 1977-1980; Post Graduate Dean of Medicine and Professor of Postgraduate medical Education, University of Southampton, 1980-1987. He died 12 Jul 2002. Publications: Fluid Balance in Obstetrics. A critical review , Lloyd-Luke: London, 1960; Preparing for your Baby , British Medical Association: [London, 1961.]; An Introduction to gynaecology and obstetrics , Lloyd-Luke: London, 1967; Reproductive physiology for medical students , London: J. & A. Churchill, 1969; Woman: a biological study of the female role in the twentieth century society , London: Transworld Publishers, 1969; Preparing to have your baby , 1971; Birth control , 1971; The value of medicine , 1976; Doctor John Leake's hospital. a history of the General Lying-in Hospital, York Road, Lambeth, 1765-1971 : the birth, life, and death of a maternity hospital , 1977; Childbirth , c1981; Letters to a young doctor. articles published in the British Medical Journal , c1983; The pre-registration year , 1983; An outline history of medicine , 1985; A short history of clinical midwifery, the development of ideas in the professional management of childbirth , c1995; Gynaecology for everywoman , c1996. Also an associate editor and principal contributor to The Oxford Companion to Medicine . Vol 1. A-M, 1986.

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