List of presidents of the British Society for the History of Medicine

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The presidents of the British Society for the History of Medicine have been:

1965-1975[edit]

No. Years Name Comments Image
1 1965–1967 Douglas Guthrie In 1956, Guthrie was elected President of the History of Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) after already having been the President of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine.[1][2] In 1957, he stated in his presidential address at the RSM "…it is obvious that history supplies an essential basis of medicine. It gives us ideals to follow, inspirations for our work and hope for the future".[3] In 1965 he was involved in the founding of the British Society for the History of Medicine and was elected its first President.[4][5]
1967 Lord Cohen of Birkenhead[6] Lord Henry Cohen of Birkenhead
1972 Noël Poynter (1908-1979) Librarian then Director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.[7][8] Noël Poynter

1975-1985[edit]

No. Years Name Comments Image
Arthur Rook A leading British dermatologist and the principal author of Rook's Textbook of Dermatology (1968).[9]
1984/85 Sir Gordon Wolstenholme

1985-1995[edit]

No. Years Name Comments Image
1986 John Cule[10] Cule was a Welsh physician who worked as a general practitioner and later as a psychiatrist. In 2005, he was awarded a MBE for his work in mental health in West Wales.[11] He was nominated an honorary member of the SSHM at the 38th congress held in 1986 at Edinburgh.[12]
John Kirkup[13]
1991 Alastair Hugh Bailey Masson (1925-2009) Consultant anaesthetist who authored a number of papers on anaesthesia and medical history.[14]
1993 John Blair Scottish consultant Surgeon and medical historian, who authored a number of books.[14][15] John Blair 2018
1994 David Gardner-Medwin[16]

1995-2005[edit]

No. Years Name Comments Image
2000 Denis Dunbar Gibbs Gibbs was a physician in general medicine and gastroenterology at the London Hospital.[17]
John M. T. Ford[citation needed]
2003 Aileen Adams Adams is a retired consultant anaesthetist. She worked at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, with a focus on ophthalmic and neuroanaesthesia. In 1985, she was Dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1993, she was Hunterian professor in the Royal College of Surgeons and has been a president of the History of Anaesthesia Society. She has also been president of the section of anaesthetics and section of the history of medicine, both at the Royal Society of Medicine.[18][19]
2005 John W. K. Ward[citation needed] John Ward (physician), Osler Club of London 2019

2005-2015[edit]

No. Years Name Comments Image
2007 David Wright Wright is a retired consultant anaesthetist who was also elected the president of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine in 2001 and has been editor of the International Society for the History of Medicine's journal Vesalius.[14][20] David Wright, anaesthetist, past president of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine
2009 Sue Weir[21]
2011 Adrian Thomas Thomas is a retired radiologist who became interested in the history of radiology when he was a registrar at Hammersmith Hospital. He has been a visiting professor at Canterbury Christ Church University, president of the Radiology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and honorary historian to the British Institute of Radiology.[22][23] Adrian Thomas (radiologist)
2013 Peter Homan[24]

2015-2019[edit]

No. Years Name Comments Image
2015 Iain Macintyre[25] Surgeon to the Queen in Scotland until his retirement in 2004, Macintyre graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University and stayed in Edinburgh throughout his surgical career. During the 500th anniversary celebration of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, he was its Vice President.[26]
2017 Chris Derrett A Durham University graduate in applied physics, Derrett worked at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Air Pollution Research Unit. He later gained a degree in medicine from the Royal Free School of Medicine and became a general practitioner (GP), GP trainer, appraiser, senior clinical lecturer at Bart's and the London School of Medicine and Head of GP Development for City and Hackney Primary Care Trust.[27]
2019 Mike Collins A graduate of Galway University, Collins worked as a consultant radiologist in Sheffield until his retirement.[28] His history of medicine interests include the early use of X-Rays, the First World War, Sir William Wilde and lead poisoning.[29]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Royal Society of Medicine: Royal Society of Medicine Library: H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. 1963. pp. 1–9.
  2. ^ Macintyre, Iain (May 2018). "The legacy of Douglas Guthrie (1885-1975), surgeon and medical historian". Journal of Medical Biography. 26 (2): 95–101. doi:10.1177/0967772018755204. ISSN 1758-1087. PMID 29405816. S2CID 46849528.(subscription required)
  3. ^ Berridge, Virginia (1990). "4. Health and Medicine". In Thompson, F. M. L. (ed.). The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950. Cambridge University Press. p. 171. ISBN 0521438144.
  4. ^ ‘Guthrie, Douglas James’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 12 Sept 2013
  5. ^ Dr Douglas Guthrie A distinguished medical historian (Obituaries) The Times Tuesday, 10 June 1975; pg. 18; Issue 59418.
  6. ^ "British Society for the History of Medicine". Medical History. 15 (3): 307–308. July 1971. doi:10.1017/S0025727300016768. ISSN 0025-7273. PMC 1034180.
  7. ^ Bynum, William F. (1980). "Frederick Noël Lawrence Poynter: Obituary". Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences. 37: 145–146.
  8. ^ "Poynter; F. N. L. Archives – Bedfordshire Historical Record Society". Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Munks Roll Details for Arthur James Rook". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  10. ^ "British Society for the History of Medicine". British Medical Journal, 11 January 1986, Vol. 292, p. 144.
  11. ^ "Kingswood Association News 2016: John Hedley Cule". Issuu. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  12. ^ "The Thirty Eighth Annual General Meeting". Report of Proceedings Session 1986-87, The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine, p. 1
  13. ^ Kirkup, John. "The Evolution of Surgical Instruments An Illustrated History from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century by John Kirkup, MD, FRCS - Norman Publishing Publications: Medical & Scientific Instruments - Jeremy Norman's HistoryofScience.com". www.historyofscience.com. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  14. ^ a b c "Alastair Hugh Bailey Masson (1925-2009)". The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine Past presidents
  15. ^ "Student Experiences". Dundee Medical School @ 40, (2007)
  16. ^ Hargreaves, Anne S.; Lazenby, Elizabeth; Gardner-Medwin, David; Pybus Society for the History and Bibliography of Medicine; British Society for the History of Medicine, eds. (1993). Medicine in Northumbria: essays on the history of medicine in the north east of England. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: The Pybus Society for the History and Bibliography of Medicine. ISBN 9780952209706. OCLC 29399334.
  17. ^ Ford, John M.T.; Ward, John W.K. "Denis Dunbar Gibbs". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  18. ^ Adams, Aileen K (February 1996). "The Delayed Arrival: From Davy (1800) to Morton (1846)". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 89 (2): 96P–100P. doi:10.1177/014107689608900214. ISSN 0141-0768. PMC 1295670. PMID 8683511.
  19. ^ Aileen K. Adams interview. Interview with Dr Max Blythe, recorded in 1996, held in Oxford Brookes' Medical Sciences Video Archive catalogue number MSVA142–3
  20. ^ "Scottish Medicine". www.birlinn.co.uk. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  21. ^ "Sue Weir". Jon Baines Tours. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  22. ^ "BIR launches film on radiology in World War I - British Institute of Radiology". www.bir.org.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  23. ^ "Reflections on the Origins of Radiotherapy". www.mybir.org.uk. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  24. ^ "Peter Homan | Blogger | Pharmaceutical Journal". www.pharmaceutical-journal.com. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  25. ^ "Past and President". Surgeons ’News December 2015, www.rcsed.ac.uk, p. 27.
  26. ^ ""Morbid Curiosities" with Iain Macintyre - Surgeons' Hall Museums, Edinburgh". museum.rcsed.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  27. ^ Tansey, Tilli (2016), "Derrett, Chris | The History of Modern Biomedicine". www.histmodbiomed.org. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  28. ^ Snowdon, Graham. "Sheffield Hospitals in World War I — Dr Michael Collins — 6th March 2017 |". Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  29. ^ The New BSHM Officers; The Vice President: Dr Michael Collins. British Society for the History of Medicine Newsletter, No. 10 (December 2017).