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Friends, foes, freedom fighters, falcons and living with fear. When Ralph answered the call to work in Rhodesia, these were some of the things that awaited him. His three years there marked a career-defining and life-changing transition from clinical medicine to specializing in drug safety—as he witnessed the dramatic birth of a new nation, Zimbabwe.
‘There is always something new out of Africa.’
Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis
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Hembrow, I. (2023). A New Africa. In: Ralph Edwards: RARE EVENTS. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14981-8_10
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