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Jumping ship & other essays Jumping ship and other essays 146 p Cover title: Jumping ship & other essays Contents: Jumping ship -- Love songs written to an old woman -- The last Pakeha -- Four poems for Hone Tuwhare -- Old testaments, new testaments -- Two poems for Nigel Brown -- Me & Mrs Jones -- Middlemore is my hospital -- The therapeutic uses of ache Summary: A book of essays and poems on the relationship between Pakeha and Maori, and on the practice of medicine ... Includes, among other things, a state of the nation speech from Waitangi 2007, organised by the Treaty Resource Centre: He Puna Matauranga te Tiriti; a keynote address for the English teachers conference, Takapuna Grammar, 2008; the introduction to the New Zealand edition of 'Suburban Shaman' by Cecil Helman; and an oration given at the conference of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Wellington 2009. (Publisher)