Cancer to Capricorn --- A Doctor in the Tropics

The third volume of Dr. Hopwood’s memoirs follows the vicissitudes of his family’s life whilst he figures out what to do next. He works for the Slough College of Further Education , the Medical Research Council, the Ministry Of Overseas Development, the Ethiopian Government and the Wellcome trust. At various times he worked in Laos, South Vietnam, Liberia, the Gambia, Ethiopia, Brazil, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, the Leeward and Westward islands of the Caribbean, the Seychelles, Swaziland, Botswana , Lesotho and South Africa. His penultimate assignment is as Director of the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory in Nairobi this is followed by a final nostalgic but sad return visit to Uganda in 1986.