First Title value, for Searching Le Vay, Abraham David (1915 - 2001)

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by K M N Kunzru
Publication Date 2010-10-13 2015-11-13
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Details David Le Vay was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Woolwich Brook General Hospital, London, for more than 30 years. During this time, he spent a year at the World Health Organization in Geneva and was later a visiting professor of surgery at the Shiraz Medical School, Iran. After his retirement from the NHS, he continued to work overseas, with time spent in Australia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Ireland. He combined his medical work with a literary career. Fluent in French, German, Spanish and Latin, he translated innumerable medical textbooks and journal articles, as well as literary works. As a writer, he produced biographies of Hugh Owen Thomas, the 19th century surgeon, and Alexis Carrel, the Nobel prize-winner. In 1948 he published the popular *Anatomy* and also *Physiology* in the 'Teach Yourself' series (English Universities Press). These were continuously in print until he combined the titles as *Teach yourself human anatomy and physiology* in 1974 (London, English Universities Press). The last edition appeared in 2001. His magnum opus *A history of Orthopaedics* (Parthenon, 1989) is the definitive work on the subject. He married four times and had 11 children. He died on 16 July 2001 and was survived by his fourth wife, Sonja Hansen, and his children.
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First Title value, for Searching Le Vay, Abraham David (1915 - 2001)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13 2015-12-16
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Occupation Historian Orthopaedic surgeon Writer
Details David Le Vay was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Woolwich Brook Memorial Hospital, and a writer and linguist. He was born in London on 14 May 1915, the son of Montague Le Vay, a retailer, and Eva née Goldstein. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School, in Hampstead, from which he entered University College London as the Bucknill scholar. After qualifying, he completed junior posts at the Royal Free Hospital, demonstrated anatomy at Cambridge, and was a registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He entered the RAMC as an orthopaedic specialist and, on demobilisation, was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Woolwich Brook Memorial Hospital. In 1960, he was seconded for a year to the World Health Organization in Geneva, and in 1973 spent a year as Visiting Professor of Surgery at the Pahlavi University Medical School in Shiraz, Iran. After retirement, he continued to work for long spells in Australia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Ireland. He was a talented linguist and had a parallel career as a medical author, biographer and historian. He wrote *A history of orthopaedic surgery* (Carnforth, Parthenon, 1990), biographies of Hugh Owen Thomas and Alexis Carrel, and numerous textbooks, including the popular *Human anatomy and physiology*, part of the Teach Yourself series (London, English Universities Press, 1974), which continued to be in demand for more than half a century. He translated innumerable medical textbooks into and from German, Latin, Spanish and French, as well as the novels of Colette and Joseph Roth. His publisher, Hodder and Stoughton, arranged a dinner to celebrate David being their longest continually published author. He married Marjorie Cole in 1940, and, in 1957, Sonja Hansen. From these two marriages he had two daughters and nine sons, one of whom became a research neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School. He was married four times in all. He died on 16 July 2001.
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