Robert M. Kaplan
Robert M Kaplan is Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate School Of Medicine, University of Wollongong. A forensic psychiatrist, writer and speaker, his books are Medical Murder: Disturbing Tales Of Doctors Who Kill (Allen & Unwin 2009) and The Exceptional Brain and How It Changed The World...
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Robert M Kaplan is Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate School Of Medicine, University of Wollongong. A forensic psychiatrist, writer and speaker, his books are Medical Murder: Disturbing Tales Of Doctors Who Kill (Allen & Unwin 2009) and The Exceptional Brain and How It Changed The World (Allen & Unwin 2011).His latest book The Prophet of Psychiatry: In Search of Ellery - a biography of Australia's most prominent psychiatrist between the wars - has just been released.In 2012 he was guest speaker at Mind and Its Potential, Darling Harbour, Sydney; see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYDTaqP-U2o. He continues to haunt various websites, most recently: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2014/10/31/4118672.htmHe has written on a range of medical, psychiatric, historic and forensic topics and, most recently, fiction. Suicide3 is a collection of short stories. To avoid finishing his autobiography Memoirs of a Marginal Medical Student he is writing a book about byways in the illness experience entitled Quirks, a voyage around difficult doctors, peculiar patients and interesting illnesses. Wait and see.
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