Mary Warnock : a memoir : people and places
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Mary Warnock : a memoir : people and places
Duckworth, 2000
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
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Description
Mary Warnock first entered the public eye in 1982 when Margaret Thatcher, impressed with her intellect, made her Chairman of the highly charged Enquiry into Human Fertilization. In this book she reflects on the places and societies in which she has lived and the people that have influenced her, as well as on her marriage to Geoffrey Warnock - tutor in philosophy and Principal of Hertford College who was later to become Vice Chancellor of Oxford University. She describes the heyday years of the 50s and 60s during which the school of philosophy at Oxford flourished and her contemporaries included such names as Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, Isaiah Berlin, Peter Strawson, David Pears, Elizabeth Anscombe and Rachel Trickett. In 1985 she left Oxford to become Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, where life changed radically and she was swept up into a more public world. Her dislike of Cambridge society and comments on the changing nature of the educational system under Thatcher are particularly trenchant.
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