GB 0100 KCLCA IOP/PP6 - LEIGH, Denis (1915-1998)

1 box

Transferred from the Neurology Department to the Institute of Psychiatry Library, 1997.

GB 0100 KCLCA IOP/PP6 [1960] Collection (fonds) 1 box Leigh , Denis , 1915-1998 , consultant psychiatrist

Born 1915; Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital and Bethlem Royal Hospital, based primarily at the Maudsley; last Physician to the Bethlem; characterized Leigh disease, also called sub-acute necrotizing encephalopathy Leigh syndrome, 1951; Secretary General of the World Psychiatric Association, [1977]; died, 1998.

Publications: The Historical Development of British Psychiatry: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, Volume I (New York, Pergamon Press, 1961).

Transferred from the Neurology Department to the Institute of Psychiatry Library, 1997.

Received from the Institute of Psychiatry, 2006

Black and white photographs of rare pamphlets and typescript drafts and preparatory notes, [1960], for the production of Denis Leigh's Historical Development of British Psychiatry Vol. 1 (1961), (Vol. 2 was never published).

Arranged in the original order.

Open. Visitors are required to provide proof of ID and sign an undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services of King's College London.

English

No additional finding aids.

Denis Leigh's private papers were left to his family, while a collection of books was sold in his will to a Swedish collector.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery as part of the VCDF upgrade programme.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Jan 2008 Bethlem Royal Hospital , asylum for the insane , also known as Bedlam x Bedlam History History of medicine Leigh , Denis , 1915-1998 , consultant psychiatrist Maudsley Hospital Psychiatry

Received from the Institute of Psychiatry, 2006

Black and white photographs of rare pamphlets and typescript drafts and preparatory notes, [1960], for the production of Denis Leigh's Historical Development of British Psychiatry Vol. 1 (1961), (Vol. 2 was never published).

Arranged in the original order.

Open. Visitors are required to provide proof of ID and sign an undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services of King's College London.

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• latín

English

No additional finding aids.

Denis Leigh's private papers were left to his family, while a collection of books was sold in his will to a Swedish collector.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• inglés