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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75.1 (2001) 102-104



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In Memoriam

Stanley W. Jackson

We were greatly saddened to learn of the death of Stanley Jackson, former President of the American Association for the History of Medicine, in late May 2000; we are pleased to print his Presidential Address in this issue of the Bulletin. Todd Savitt, Secretary-Treasurer of the AAHM, made the following introductory remarks:

I hadn't had much contact with Stan until a couple of years ago when he became president of this association. I knew him slightly from annual meetings and from a pleasant long conversation at a reception at the aquarium during the Seattle annual meeting a few years ago. But these past few years of working with him have shown me some things about Stan that those of you who have known him for a long time have already recognized: He's a man of great inner strength and integrity, a warm and gentle person, a man who knows himself but is not so arrogant as to be deaf to the ideas and opinions of others, a man who takes on responsibilities and fulfills them completely. I have come to admire Stan more and more as I've gotten to know him better. He's a gem.

Stan is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst by training. Born in 1920 in Montreal, he is bilingual. He earned his bachelor's degree from McGill University in 1941, served as a navigator in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, then returned to McGill to earn his medical degree in 1950. He studied, practiced, and taught psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Seattle from 1952 to 1964 and also became deeply interested in the history of medicine. In 1964 Stan moved to Yale's Department of the History of Science and Medicine as a research fellow. Two years later, he became a member of both that department and the Psychiatry Department. In 1991, after many years of service to Yale, he became an emeritus professor in both departments.

Stan has been an active member of the history of medicine community, serving as editor of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences from 1991 to 1996, as researcher and writer of his own articles and books, as grant reviewer for various funding agencies, and as a hard-working AAHM member. His many articles on the history of psychiatry have, over the years, been published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, and Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

Most of us, in our CVs, have separate sections for the various kinds of [End Page 102] publications: articles, books, book reviews, etc. Demonstrating Stan's unwillingness to promote his own accomplishments, he buries the listing of his two books in a section of his CV entitled: "Reviews, Chapters, and Books." Number 25 is Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times (1986) and number 37 is Care of the Psyche: A History of Psychological Healing (1999); both were published by Yale University Press. One reviewer in the New England Journal of Medicine (9 December 1999, p. 1860) called his second book "brilliant" and "a masterpiece."

The address was read at the annual meeting of the AAHM in Bethesda, Maryland, on 19 May 2000, by Sherwin P. Nuland, Stan's colleague from Yale Medical School and an AAHM Council Member.

Saul Jarcho

The editors regret to report the death of Saul Jarcho, former President of the American Association for the History of Medicine and member of the Bulletin's editorial board from 1972 through 1992. We reprint here, with the kind permission of the author and the New York Academy of Medicine, portions of a tribute to Dr. Jarcho written by Daniel M. Fox and published in the Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, volume 75, no. 1, March 1998:

Saul Jarcho has had an intensely personal relationship with information, a romance with inquiry, and a strong attachment...

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