Introduction to the publication section

In this section of the website, I have provided a comprehensive list of my publications. This corpus of work spans the six decades of my professional career to date, from the late 1970s to the 2020s.

Many of these documents were written and published in the pre-digital era. My team is in the process of digitising them all, in order to restore them to accessibility for interested readers.

Research has shown that many older published papers, reports, books and Theses have a long tail of readership and citation activity which can last for decades if they are readily available (on the internet).

Conversely, they fade from use and memory if they are not accessible, or if they are confined to a few institutional libraries and national repositories in paper copies on long musty shelves.

I hope that these writings will prove to be of use and of interest. The ideas and findings expressed in some have been superceded by events and practices, while others maintain contemporary relevance as evidence of the evolution of concepts and clinical practice over more than 40 years.

Please feel free to download, read or otherwise use them, including through quotations and citations in other articles and publications.

I have subdivided the list into subject areas for ease of readership. These subject areas cover the diversity of my professional interests, which have included:

  • Writing on clinical subject areas
  • Writings on cancer research and subject areas
  • Writing related to my career in military medicine
  • Writings related to my career as an academic journal editor
  • Writings related to my work in the fields of digital systems for health

All documents are provided on a Creative Commons CC-BY copyright licence, by which they are made available for use subject to formal reference or citation where their content is re-used.

More recent documents are allocated a digital object identifier (doi), an alpha-numeric tag and hyperlink, which should locate them elsewhere on the internet.

Thank you for reading and giving new life to this work.