One Man’s Medicine: An Autobiography of Professor Archie Cochrane

To celebrate the centenary of Professor Archie Cochrane's birth, the University published a special version of ‘One Man’s Medicine: An Autobiography of Professor Archie Cochrane’ by Archibald L. Cochrane with Max Blythe.

In ‘One man’s medicine’, Professor Cochrane (1909-1988) recollects how events and experiences in the Spanish Civil War and in German prisoner of war camps, among many others, led him to question traditional medical attitudes and champion an evidence-based, evaluative approach to medicine and healthcare.

Thorn in the side of the medical establishment, pioneering epidemiologist, academic, poet, traveller, art collector and convivial host are just some dimensions of a fascinating and influential life vividly recalled in ‘One man’s medicine’ and now available, for the first time, in paperback.

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• Publication May 2009
• 303 pages, 14 plates, 16 figures
• ISBN: 978-0-9540884-3-9
• Features original Foreword by Sir Richard Doll CH FRS and additional material by Sir Richard Peto FRS and Sir Iain Chalmers

The Archie Cochrane Library, based at University Hospital Llandough, houses the Cochrane Archive – a comprehensive record of Professor Cochrane’s life, work and achievements.