There is also a common misconception that radiotherapy is something that people already within the NHS go on to specialise in she says
Posted in General on 05. Oct, 2010
There is also a common misconception that radiotherapy is something that people already within the NHS go on to specialise in, she says. It has launched a fast-track postgraduate diploma, radiotherapy and oncology in practice, aimed at graduates with a first degree in health care or a related subject. Too few people think of radiotherapy as a career option, says principal lecturer Angela Duxbury. Some of her students became aware of the vital job that radiotherapists do only when a family member needed treatment for cancer. Acute staff shortages in radiotherapy services for cancer patients are being addressed by Sheffield Hallam University. The reviewer’s books include ‘Automobile: how the car changed life’ (Macmillan). However, the really interesting early automobile development took place in France, which thanks to Napoleon had the world’s best roads.
And why stop in 1939? Plenty of Brits did drive by then, but the real explosion in car ownership didn’t happen until the 1960s.Thorold does recognise this: he’s constantly darting into the post-war years. But those forays are half-hearted, because structurally illegal. Indeed, the whole book lacks unifying thought, a deficiency exemplified by a chapter devoted to road against rail that never mentions the two overwhelmingly important aspects of the contest: that road transport is flexible where trains are not, and that rail operators must bear (and pass on) the cost of building and maintaining the permanent way, while general taxation pays for the roads.Thorold is at his best on the motoring extravaganzas of the rich: a subject he enjoys, and about which he has written a previous book For the rest, consult his bibliography There are some jolly good books in there. That this book is a canter through the literature rather than a personal view is made disarmingly clear. His technique is to move from one previous book to another (including, I noticed, one of mine) while quoting relevant bits.His time-frame, too, seems a little strange: 1896 is an obvious starting date for Britain, since that was the year of the first London to Brighton run. If you’re a petrol-head, you might pick styling, or recent innovations, or great collectors.
There’s the social option, with its planning and psychological subsections, or the political, particularly juicy given the fast-approaching end of oil and the inability of anyone to say where the hydrogen for the “hydrogen economy” is going to come from.Peter Thorold, however, has plumped for choice b. There have been so many histories of British motoring; and there are so many fascinating side avenues. This is the book you want to write, and write it you damn well will.Now more choices confront you. Will you a) take a line that will differentiate your book from all previous works; or b) read everything and present a general overview, trusting that no one else will have delved so deep and all will be grateful for your clarity and wit?If your subject is the motor car, choice a) is clearly the preferred option. You’ve done all that work and those other books aren’t so great.
There may be an infinity of ideas out there, but they’re not your ideas. Do you a) bow to the inevitable, and look around for a fresh topic; or b) plough on regardless in the hope you’ll find something fresh to say?
In most cases, the sensible choice would be a But as every author knows, this is easier said than done Working up a theme, you get proprietorial. But when you look into it, you find that 25 other books on approximately similar lines have appeared over the past 10 years. You are planning to write a book Your editor is eager, you’ve got a great subject. Action is random; an actor wanders through, burbling about light and infinity or reciting a speech from The Tempest. Music is electronic noise, or random snatches of a Mozart clarinet quintet.That last solo exhausts audience patience because it has no graspable structure. Teshigawara repeats a long series of twitches, holds a flopped, knock-kneed pose, runs about His movements aren’t linked, and don’t follow the music There’s no sense of progress, no movement logic He’ll keep going until he stops No wonder people walked out..