Obituary on Marcel Henry

Obituary: Marcel F. Neuts 1935-2014

MarcelNeuts died in his home inTucson,Arizona, on 9March 2014. Hewas born inBelgium on 21 February 1935, and received his school and undergraduate education in Belgium before moving to Stanford University for his Masters (1958–1959) and PhD (1959–1960), supervised by Samuel Karlin. His main academic appointments were at Purdue University (1962–1976), University of Delaware (1976–1985), and The ...

Obituary: Professor John Henry, MBBS, FRCP, FFAEM (1939–2007)

John Henry was educated at St Joseph’s Academy at Blackheath in London and qualified MBBS from King’s College Hospital, London in 1965. He obtained the MRCP (UK) Diploma in 1974 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1986. He was appointed as Consultant Physician to the Poisons Unit at Guy’s Hospital in 1982 and continued in that role until he became P...

Obituary: in memoriam, Marcel Rudasingwa (18 June 1955 - 17 November 2014)

Marcel survived the genocide. So did Monique. Their five children were not so fortunate. With a resilience almost super-human, Marcel and Monique rebuilt their lives, Marcel resuming his work with UNICEF in successive duty postings in Africa and Europe. I remember meeting with him in Bamako a few years back. There was a funding shortfall for the measles campaign. He was all business, pulling ou...

Gabriel Marcel on Hope

According to Gabriel Marcel, being cannot be approached directly through a conceptual way, because it belongs to the real territory of mystery rather than that of problem. One of the most important concepts in Marcel’s philosophy is that of hope. Marcel’s conception of hope relies upon a distinction between “having” and “being.”  We do not have a belief; we are in a belief. Similarly, ...

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