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Vernon Coleman (born 18 May 1946) is a former general practitioner,〔http://www.vernoncoleman.com/biog.htm〕 and the author of over 100 books, including non-fiction works about human health, politics, cricket, and animal issues,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vernon Coleman )〕 and a range of novels. Son of an electrical engineer, he grew up an only child, in Walsall, West Midlands, England, where he attended Queen Mary's Grammar School. He is a militant vegetarian and antivivisectionist. One of his novels, ''Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War'', has been turned into a movie with the same name.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War )〕 According to ''The Independent'', Coleman has "been censured by the Press Complaints Commission and banned by the advertising watchdog" and "irritates just about everyone". ==Biography== As a child he was unsure what he wanted to do, but then, according to ''The Independent'' in 2008, he "met a friend of the family when I was about 12 who said, if you're a lawyer you spend your life making people unhappy, and if you're a doctor you spend your life trying to make people happy."〔(The doctor will see you now: Who does Vernon Coleman think he is? )〕 Before going to medical school he worked for a year as a volunteer in Kirkby, Liverpool, getting children to paint old people's houses and doing their shopping. According to Coleman, "The unions threatened to strike, as they were taking away work, but... work that they weren't doing anyway...." Coleman qualified as a doctor in 1970 and has worked both in hospitals and as a GP. He is still registered and licensed to practice as a GP principal. He has founded and organised many campaigns concerning iatrogenesis, drug addictions and the abuse of animals and has given evidence to committees at the House of Commons and the House of Lords on vivisection. Dr Coleman's campaigns have often proved successful. For example, after a 15-year campaign (which started in 1973), he eventually persuaded the British government to introduce stricter controls governing the prescribing of benzodiazepine tranquillisers. 'Dr Vernon Coleman's articles, to which I refer with approval, raised concern about these important matters,' said Edwina Currie, Parliamentary Secretary for health in the House of Commons in 1988. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vernon Coleman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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