THOMAS WAKLEY,

The Life and Times of Thomas Wakley

Thomas Wakley and the medical coronership--occupational death and the judicial process.

During a brief period beginning in 1838, coroners' inquests were an unusually controversial component of the English legal system. In considering volatile issues such as employers' responsibility for hazards to workers and the public, a particular type of coroners' inquiry managed to provoke extensive debate about medical and legal professionalism, as well as forcing discussion of the specific ...

Lessons in medical politics: Thomas Wakley and the Irish Medical Charities, 1827-39.

Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), the founding editor of the Lancet, has an assured place in the history of medical reform in England. A friend of William Cobbett, the radical activist who helped him establish the Lancet in 1823, Wakley fought vested interests through his journal as well as in the House of Commons, where he served as the Member for Finsbury from 1835 to 1852. A nice assessment of his ...

The Wakley Essay Prize 2014: the best of both worlds.

Thomas Suddendorf

Thomas Suddendorf is Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He was born and raised in Germany, but has spent most of his adult life in the Antipodes. He studies the development of mental capacities in young children and in nonhuman animals to answer fundamental questions about the nature and evolution of the human mind. He has received honors and distinctions for bo...