Havelock Ellis practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Havelock Ellis as British physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939).
Havelock Ellis was born at Croydon in 1859. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and King's College London.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are sexology.
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.
Havelock Ellis died in 1939, aged 80. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: sexology
