News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

by John Berger and Jean Mohr - £9.99  Canongate Books Ltd (2016)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781782115038 | ISBN 10: 178211503x

In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall.
 
Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.
 
In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text and the photography of Jean Mohr reveal with extraordinary intensity the life of a remarkable man. It is a portrait of one selfless individual and the rural community for which he became the hub. Drawing on psychology, biography and medicine A Fortunate Man is a portrait of sacrifice. It is also a profound exploration of what it means to be a doctor, to serve a community and to heal.
 
With a new introduction by novelist and GP, Gavin Francis.

(Price & availability last checked: April 2016)

Order by email

×

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor - by John Berger and Jean Mohr

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates

Select type of order: Collect & pay in the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send me a card payment link Mail-order - I will pay another way & give details in the notes section

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):

Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Close

Enquire about this book

×

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

by John Berger and Jean Mohr

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):

Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order? Select type of order : Collect from the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send by post

Close

In booklists: Doctors, Nurses and Midwives, Photographs - UK,
In categories: Health & Wellbeing, Arts & Creativity,