James Crichton-Browne
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 120 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5094-4869-0
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir James Crichton-Browne MD FRS (29th November 1840 – 31st January 1938) was a leading British psychiatrist famous for studies on the relationship of mental illness to brain injury - and for the development of public health policies in relation to mental health. Crichton-Browne was a celebrated author and orator, editor of the highly influential West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports (six volumes, 1871 to 1876), one of Charles Darwin's most significant correspondents and collaborators - on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) - and - like Duchenne de Boulogne and Hugh Welch Diamond - a pioneer of neuropsychiatric photography. Much of his childhood was spent in Dumfries and from 1892 to 1896, he served as President of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Crichton-Browne was based in Wakefield from 1866 to 1875, and there he set up a unique asylum laboratory, establishing instruction...