In the history of medicine, Ronald Fairbairn is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Ronald Fairbairn as Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1889–1964).
Ronald Fairbairn was born at Edinburgh in 1889. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at University of Edinburgh.
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 psychiatry.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
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.
Ronald Fairbairn died in 1964, aged 75. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: psychiatry
