Donald Winnicott practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Donald Winnicott as British pediatric psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1896–1971).
Donald Winnicott was born at Plymouth in 1896. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Jesus College and St Bartholomew's Hospital.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Donald Winnicott died in 1971, aged 75. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
