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One Man’s Medicine: An Autobiography of Professor Archie Cochrane

Archie Cochrane with Max Blythe

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  • Mark LeonardRecommended to shareholders
    Leonard explicitly proposes that shareholders read this Cochrane book. He connects the pair’s challenge to established medical practice with the need to test business practices and managers’ claims. His edition is unknown.
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Summary

Archie Cochrane recounts his life and work in medicine with Max Blythe. The autobiography offers a personal view of the physician and epidemiologist whose work is associated with the demand for better evidence about medical care. Leonard describes the narrator as an independent, learned outsider with a dry sense of humor.

This is a memoir, distinct from Cochrane’s argument about health services in Effectiveness and Efficiency. This record uses Cardiff University’s 2009 centenary edition, which retains Richard Doll’s foreword and adds contributions by Richard Peto and Iain Chalmers. Leonard’s exact copy is unknown.

  • SourceOne Man’s Medicine: An Autobiography of Professor Archie Cochrane — original publication or publisher · Library catalogue: author and coauthor, original 1989 work, 2009 Cardiff centenary edition, ISBN and additional contributors.
  • SourceMark Leonard — 2015 reporting-year letter, signed 26 April 2016 · PDF pp. 10–11: memoir description, explicit recommendation and application to management judgment.

Why read it Our view

Use the personal account to ask how an insider can question an established profession without losing the discipline of evidence. Leonard reads Cochrane’s criticism of medical practice alongside questions about managers’ own claims to help.