Sir George Pickering (1904-1982).

Parliament, Press and Broadcasting

On February 8th, the Minister of Health announced the composition of the new Committees on Clinical Psychiatry and on the Epideminology of Mental Disorders under the chairmanship respectively of Professor Sir George Pickering and Professor Sir Aubrey Lewis. Each Committee, the Minister said, had appointed working parties to study special aspects of its field, such as the psychopathic personalit...

First Thomas Pickering memorial lecture*: ambulatory blood pressure measurement is essential for the management of hypertension.

THOMAS G. PICKERING Dr Thomas George Pickering, physician, clinical scientist, professor and mentor, editor, husband, father, and grandfather, died on May 14, 2009, at the age of 69 from complications of brain cancer, an illness that he had fought with dignity and courage for more than a year (Figure 1). Tom was educated at Bryanston School in Blandford, England, where he won state and entrance...

Creative malady. Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

GEORGE PICKERING, Creative malady. Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1974, 8vo., pp. 327, illus., £5.25. Professor Sir George Pickering explores the fascinating paradox of illness as a benefit, not only to the patient, but also to society. Thus, in the case ...

To do the sick no harm. A study of the British voluntary hospital system to 1875

GEORGE PICKERING, Creative malady. Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1974, 8vo., pp. 327, illus., £5.25. Professor Sir George Pickering explores the fascinating paradox of illness as a benefit, not only to the patient, but also to society. Thus, in the case ...

Sir John McMichael - 25 July 1904--3 March 1993.