Robert M. Kaplan - Medical Murder. Disturbing Cases of Doctors Who Kill

MEDICAL MURDER
This edition published in 2010 by Summersdale Publishers Ltd.

First published by Allen & Unwin Ltd in 2009

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Dr Robert M. Kaplan leads a double life. In his day job he is a forensic psychiatrist, Clinical Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong, and associate member of the South African Association of Professional Archaeologists. In his other life, he is a writer, historian and student of the vagaries of human nature. He has written and published on medicine, psychiatry, history and crime; subjects include Dr Radovan Karadzic, Adolf Hitler, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud. His interests include serial killers and medical crime; the origin of modern humans; Jewish life and Talmudic thinking; medical messiahs, moral panic and modern witchhunts.

He has broadcast on ABC Radio, given talks to a range of audiences and published in Australasian Psychiatry , the British Medical Journal , South African Medical Journal , Medical Observer and Scope . He was consultant to Professor Charles van Onselen for his book The Fox and the Flies : The World of Joseph Silver , Racketeer and Psychopath . He regularly goes to South Africa to visit museums, prehistoric diggings and encounter some of the best historians and archaeologists in the world.

Born in Edinburgh, raised in South Africa and living in Australia for several decades, he is waiting for the authorities to deport him. To the small circle of private individuals prepared to admit that they know him, he is regarded as a more than fair cook, a feckless word spinner and obsessive alliterator who keeps unreliable hours and is utterly unable to take anything seriously. He maintains an unfulfilled ambition to complete his autobiography, working title Memoirs of a Marginal Medical Student .