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Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (/ ˈ k eɪ n z / KAYNZ; 25 March 1887, Cambridge – 5 July 1982, Cambridge) was a British surgeon and author. He began his career as a physician in World War I , before becoming a doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London , where he made notable innovations in the fields of blood transfusion and ...
5 de abr. de 2016 · During the 1920s and 1930s, the British surgeon Geoffrey Keynes (1887–1982) treated breast cancer with radium instead of the hegemonic radical mastectomy, while vehemently attacking the “radicalists” for mutilating women. Keynes was also a leading bibliographer of literary figures from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake through ...
- Gerald Kutcher
- 2016
Learn about Sir Geoffrey Keynes, the brother of economist John Maynard Keynes, who was a surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital and a bibliographer. He also served as a senior consultant surgeon to the Royal Air Force during World War Two.
Geoffrey Keynes himself attained equal eminence in three separate spheres: as a surgeon and medical innovator; as a bibliophile, combining the roles of collector, writer, editor, and bibliographer; and as a public man, particularly his services as a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1942 to 1966.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887 - 1982), was a pioneer in the surgery of breast cancer and thymic deseases, n.b. in patients suffering from myastenia gravis. He strongly disapproved of the longstanding dogma of so called radical mastectomy in breast cancer, and advocated a more limited surgical approach, ….
scholar and bibliographer, brother of J. M. Keynes. His works include bibliographies of Donne, Evelyn, and Blake (1921, 1953); his editions of Blake (1925–66, and various studies) were a major contribution towards the 20th‐cent. reappraisal of Blake's work.
Inventor of a portable blood transfusion device that saved many lives during WWI. Also known for his publications on great poets and English literature. Brother of famous economist John Maynard Keynes, husband of Margret Elizabeth Darwin, granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
