Biography:Charles P. Childe
Charles Plumley Childe | |
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| Born | 1858 Cape Colony |
| Died | 30 January 1926 (aged 67–68) Monte Carlo |
| Occupation | Surgeon, writer |
Charles Plumley Childe (1858 – 30 January 1926) was a British surgeon, cancer researcher and public health activist.
Biography
Childe was born in Cape Colony.[1] He was educated at Cambridge University and King's College Hospital for his medical training. He graduated from the University of the Cape of Good Hope with honours in 1877. He obtained a Warneford scholarship at King's College Hospital. In 1883, obtained the M.R.C.S., in 1885 the L.R.C.P. and in 1900 the M.R.C.P.[1] He took the F.R.C.S. in 1892 and was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Portsmouth Hospital. He established himself as one of the most successful surgeons in the South of England.[1] He was surgeon to the Southsea Home for Sick Children and Hampshire and Isle of Wight School for the Blind.[1]
Childe retired in 1923 and was appointed senior honorary consulting surgeon and chairman of the committee of management. He was President of the British Medical Association (1923–1924).[1] Childe was one of the earliest proponents of cancer education to the public.[2] He encouraged early detection of cancer and recourse to surgery.[3] Childe's mission to propagate lay education of cancer was not popular in the United Kingdom during his lifetime but influenced the American Society for the Control of Cancer.[4][5]
His best known work was The Control of a Scourge: Or How Cancer is Curable, published in 1906.[2][6] Childe died at Monte Carlo on Jan 30th, 1926, from influenza and pneumonia. He was buried at Highland Road Cemetery, Southsea.[1]
Selected publications
- The Control of a Scourge: Or, How Cancer is Curable (1906)
- Cancer, Public Authorities, and the Public (1914)
- Surgical Nursing and Technique (1916)
- Cancer and the Public: The Educational Aspect of the Cancer Problem (1925)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Charles Plumley Childe, B.A., F.R.C.S". The British Medical Journal 1 (3397): 263–264. 1926. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3397.263. PMID 20772366.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Moscucci, Ornella (2010). "The British Fight against Cancer: Publicity and Education, 1900–1948". Social History of Medicine 23 (2): 356–373. doi:10.1093/shm/hkp050.
- ↑ Moscucci, Ornella. (2016). Gender and Cancer in England, 1860-1948. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 108. ISBN:978-1-349-60109-7
- ↑ Triolo, Victor A; Shimkin, Michael B. (1969). "The American Cancer Society and Cancer Research Origins and Organization: 1913-1943". Cancer Research 29 (9): 1615–1641. PMID 4898393. https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/canres/29/9/1615.full.pdf.
- ↑ Austoker, Joan. (1988). A History of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 1902-1986. Oxford University Press. p. 164. ISBN:978-0197230756
- ↑ R. T. H. (1907). "(1) The Control of a Scourge, or How Cancer is Curable (2) The Essential Similarity of Innocent and Malignant Tumours A study of Tumour Growth (3) Guy's Hospital Reports". Nature 76 (1964): 171. doi:10.1038/076171a0. Bibcode: 1907Natur..76..171R. https://www.nature.com/articles/076171a0.pdf.
External links
- Charles Plumley Childe (Royal College of Surgeons of England)
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