Biography
W. Gordon Sears was one of the physician-authors whose compact Arnold textbooks supplied the classroom side of British nursing education before and immediately after the National Health Service Act. Medicine for Nurses (first Edward Arnold editions in the 1940s) set symptoms, signs and basic therapeutics in a ward-friendly sequence; companion volumes on anatomy and physiology and on materia medica extended the same plain style for preliminary and Part I curricula. Library stamps and reprint dates show the titles circulating well into the 1970s alongside larger hospital manuals.
Published writings & editorial work
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Authored / principal writer
- Medicine for Nurses
First published 1940s · Edward Arnold
Author
The long-running general-medicine textbook written by W. Gordon Sears for nurse-training curricula. Carried through many editions from its first appearance in the 1940s, it was a standard ward reference covering the common presenting conditions, their pathophysiology, and the …
- Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses
Edward Arnold
Author
A teaching anatomy and physiology text pitched at the student-nurse level, written as a companion to Sears' Medicine for Nurses. Structured around systems, with diagrams tuned to the clinical questions nurses are expected to be able to answer at the bedside.
- Materia Medica for Nurses
Edward Arnold
Author
A compact guide to drugs, dosage and therapeutics for student and practising nurses — the third of Sears' three-book nurse-training set alongside Medicine for Nurses and Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses.