![]() ![]() It remains a unique and important source for the history and bibliography of psychiatry in Britain before 1860. Each book is accompanied by an essay describing its place in medical and social history. Richard Alfred Hunter FRCP (11 November 1923 25 November 1981) was a British physician of German origin, and president of the History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1972 to 1973. Richard Hunter and Ida MacAlpine, Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry 15351860. With his mother, Dr Ida Macalpine, also a psychiatrist, he wrote Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry 1535 to 1860, using title pages from books in his collection to illustrate this first full chronicle of British psychiatry. He was president of the History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1972-1973 Hunter was a psychiatrist, historian, and book collector. Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981) was a British physician of German origin. The spine has a small grey stain at the head, but still Fine. Beige linen, embossed brown spine label with gilt lettering and floral motif. A history presented in selected English texts. Hunter, Richard Alfred (1923-1981) and Ida Macalpine (d. ![]()
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