By Hugh R. Taylor. 282 pp., illustrated. East Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Eye Research Australia/Haddington Press, 2008. $112. ISBN 978-0-9757695-9-1.
Perhaps in a tribute to the importance of stories to the aboriginalpeoples of Australia, Hugh Taylor has organized his book asan interwoven storyscape, and a vivid one at that. Born in Melbourne,Taylor served as an ophthalmologist in the Australian NationalTrachoma and Eye Health Program (NTEHP) in the 1970s. Duringhis time with the program, he cared for his first aboriginalpatients with trachoma and was introduced to the health disparitiesthat are too often borne by members of indigenous populations.Over the decades that followed, Taylor went on to become aninternationally recognized authority on trachoma . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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