Life in Her Hands - The Inspiring Story of a Pioneering Female Surgeon

Averil Mansfield was born in Blackpool in 1937, where she grew up in a council house. Even in becoming a doctor, she was achieving against the odds. But her desire from the age of eight was to go further still and work as a surgeon; a goal she was delighted to achieve in 1972. Based in Liverpool, Averil was the UK''s first ever female vascular surgeon; she went on to become the first female professor of surgery too. She has since been awarded a number of honorary titles and prizes, including a CBE in 1999 and an NHS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. Now widowed, she lives in London.>

Product details

• Authors: Averil Mansfield, Mansfield Averil
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781529149968
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-4996-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational, Surgery, United Kingdom, Great Britain, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), Biography: science, technology and medicine, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine