Brain Advance Access originally published online on April 15, 2008
Brain 2008 131(5):1402-1407; doi:10.1093/brain/awn069
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Book Review |
‘To sleep, to die’ (with apologies to Hamlet)
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Bring Your Medicine if You Like; The One-Eyed Man is King; But Always as Friends. The very titles of the books (Brook, 1966
; Sharwood Smith, 1969; Cox, 2000) are evocative and persuasive; they lead to days long past, to the confidence of an Empire and of its servants, and to costly change in ancient societies. Although the sun has now set on that Empire, its name lives on in the slogans of those for whom its every motive was wrong and for whom its legacy has been doleful. But when the heat of emotion is cooled and the bitter memories of its evident injustices are less sharp, we can today assemble a less hostile picture from the memoirs and chronicles of those who worked as its administrators, agricultural and medical officers, teachers and scientists. What led them to choose work overseas? Was it their family's tradition?
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