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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:36
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Reprints and Reflections

Commentary: Early thoughts on death, disease and sex

Hugh Thomas

College Road Surgery, 6 College Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 4HY, UK.

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This article1 was written in a period of his life (1931–1934) that Archie Cochrane, in his autobiography, called ‘the years of mistakes’.2 He had gained a Cambridge double first in the Natural Sciences and undertaken a year’s research on the newly developing area of tissue culture. But he was not a good laboratory scientist and a personal sexual problem was affecting his life. He could not consummate his relationships with women because, as he wrote 50 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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