Time to Declare by David Owen

Time to Declare by David Owen

This autobiography looks at the life and work of the politician David Owen as well as the major political issues of the last 30 years - the National Health Service, the Labour Party, his time in office, culminating in appointment as Foreign Secretary, the creation of the SDP and his future.

Owen, David: - David Owen (Lord Owen) is Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords. He was the British Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister James Callaghan from 1977 to 1979. He co-founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981 and led it from 1983 to 1990. As EU negotiator, he collaborated with Cyrus Vance, former US Secretary of State, to put forward the Vance-Owen Peace Plan for Bosnia in 1993. Before entering politics, he practiced as a clinical neurologist and psychiatrist at St. Thomas's Hospital in London. Lord Owen was Minister of State for Health from 1974 to 1976. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and sits on the board of Abbott Laboratories. He is the author of eleven books, including The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power, In Sickness and in Health: The Politics of Medicine, Face the Future (Praeger Publishers), and A Future That Will Work (Praeger Publishers).

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ISBN 13	9780140148053
ISBN 10	0140148051
Title	Time to Declare
Author	David Owen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1992-03-05
Number of pages	832
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