Books by Dr Berend Mets

Immorality Act

John Terreblanche, a police reporter seeking redemption, tells the story of a Xhosa nurse, a Dutch doctor and a Malay prostitute who engage in a passionate love triangle in the shadow of the Sharpeville massacre, as South Africa lurches towards becoming a Republic.

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Leadership in Anaesthesia, Five Pioneers of the Deadly Quest for Surgical Insensibility

This history of medicine collection presents the biographies of five pioneering anesthetists through the lens of leadership.
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Waking Up Safer?

Despite the average American experiencing no less than six anesthetics in a lifetime; most people are blissfully unaware of its consequences – lulled into a false sense of security – believing that sleep rather than chemically induced coma is the outcome.
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“Good stories make history come alive and Dr Mets’ book is full of good stories.”

Dr David Wilkinson, Laureate of the Wood Library Museum & Past President of the History of Anaesthesia Society. London, U.K.