Jumping Ship & Other Essays

A book of essays and poems on the relationship between Pākehā and Māori, and on the practice of medicine. This title includes, among other things, a state of the nation speech from Waitangi 2007, organised by the Treaty Resource Centre: He Puna Mātauranga 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.