Edwin Clarke, MD, FRCP (1919–1996)

Edwin Clarke, MD, FRCP (1919-1996).

Edwin Clarke at the Wellcome Institute

On 31 December 1979 Edwin Clarke, M.D., F.R.C.P., relinquished his post as Director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in order to devote himself full time to his investigations into the history of the neuro-medical sciences. Readers of this journal will be familiar with his earlier work in the subject, including (with C. D. O'Malley) The human brain andspinal cord(University...

James Patrick Watson MD, FRCP, FRCPsych

James (Jim) Watson, who died after a stroke on 3 August 2016 aged 80, was among a small band of British psychiatrists who trained in the 1960s and 70s to take psychiatry out of the asylums and establish robust services in general hospital and community settings. They were also responsible for developing a wide range of specialist mental health services. Jim was deeply committed to improving the...

Kenneth D. Keele, MD, FRCP (1909–1987)

With the death on 3 May 1987 of the distinguished physician and medical historian, Kenneth Keele, the world of scholarship has sustained an irreplaceable loss, especially in the field of Leonardo da Vinci studies. from a medical family; his father and grandfather were medical practitioners, as were his two brothers, one ofwhom, Cyril Keele, is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at Middlesex Hos...

Obituary: William J Sibbald, MD, FRCP(C)

William Sibbald was born June 28, 1946, and died September 14, 2006, at his home in Toronto, Ontario, surrounded by his family after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. Up until two days before his death, he remained the Physician-in-Chief of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Critical Care and a lifelong dynamic force for the advance...