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RHODES, Philip (1922-2002)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP50

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: RHODES, Philip (1922-2002)

Date(s): 1971

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Rhodes | Philip | 1922-2002 | obstetrician and gynaecologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript copy of Philip Rhodes' Bronte Prize Essay 1972, `A medical appraisal of the Brontes'.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Acquired by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Sources: British Library Online Public Catalogue; St Thomas Hospital Medical School Old Students Directory; Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators, Vol 35, Nov 2002.