In the history of medicine, Boonsong Lekagul is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Boonsong Lekagul as Thai physician, biologist, ornithologist and conservationist (1907–1992).
Boonsong Lekagul was born at Songkhla in 1907. His recorded nationality is Thailand. He trained at Chulalongkorn University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, biology and herpetology.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Thailand matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Boonsong Lekagul died in 1992, aged 85. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine, biology and herpetology
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