Oliver St John Gogarty practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Oliver St John Gogarty as Irish physician, writer and politician (1878-1957).
Oliver St John Gogarty was born at Dublin in 1878. His recorded nationality is Ireland. He trained at Trinity College, Dublin and School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His principal contribution is As I Was Going Down Sackville Street. Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Ireland matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Oliver St John Gogarty died in 1957, aged 79. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Notable work: As I Was Going Down Sackville Street
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