Abstract
On the opening page of Daniel Hack Tuke's 1892Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, is a statement which reads:Dedicated to John Charles Bucknill, M.D. Lond. F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Late Lord Chancellors Visitor in Lunacy, First Editor of the ‘Journal of Mental Science’, and an early and strenuous worker in the field of psychological medicine.
Highlights
Why did Tuke single out Bucknill for special praise? The answer lies partly in the fact that, some 32 years earlier, the two men had been responsible for one of the first and most Tinufkluee'sntialA tMexatnbuoaolks oof f Ppssyycchhoialotrgyi.cal BuMckendililcin&e initially appeared in 1858
There are the official obituaries in the medical journals and newspapers (British Medi cal Journal 1895, 1897; Ireland, 1895: Lancet. 1895. 1897: The Times. 1895, 1897; Clapham. 1897) and the Dictionary of National Biography (1909)
In the second ary literature sporadic references are made to the two men, for example by Walk (1953, 1978); Walk & Walker (1961): Hunter & MacAlpine (1963); Scull (1979, 1993); Clark (1981, 1988); Hare (1987): Bynum (1989. 1991): Oppenheim (1991) and in the two recent volumes on British psychiatry (Berrios & Freeman, 1991; Freeman & Berrios. 1996). but no comprehensive account has been undertaken
Summary
Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, is a state ment which reads: DF.eRd.iCca.Pte..d F.tRo .SJ.o,hnLateChLarolerds CBhuacnkcnelillol,r's M.VDi.sitLorondin. The answer lies partly in the fact that, some 32 years earlier, the two men had been responsible for one of the first and most Tinufkluee'sntialA tMexatnbuoaolks oof f Ppssyycchhoialotrgyi.cal BuMckendililcin&e initially appeared in 1858. It ran to four editions and dominated British psychiatry for nearly a qfourarTteurkeo'sf alacteenr,turmy.oreThiasmbboitoiokusform1e8d92thperobjaescits, and, just as the Dictionary has been seen as a mirror of the preoccupations of British psychia try at the end of the 19th century, so the Manual can be viewed as a reflection of the concerns of mid-century. In the second ary literature sporadic references are made to the two men, for example by Walk (1953, 1978); Walk & Walker (1961): Hunter & MacAlpine (1963); Scull (1979, 1993); Clark (1981, 1988); Hare (1987): Bynum (1989. 1991): Oppenheim (1991) and in the two recent volumes on British psychiatry (Berrios & Freeman, 1991; Freeman & Berrios. 1996). but no comprehensive account has been undertaken
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