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Edwin Sisterton Clarke FRCP (18 June 1919 – 11 April 1996) was a British neurologist and medical historian, best remembered for his role as Director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, when he succeeded Noël Poynter and oversaw the transfer of the Wellcome museum to the Science museum, helped establish an intercalated BSc degree in the history of medicine for medical students and edited the journal Medical History.
In 1958, Clarke left a career in neurology to pursue one in history of medicine. In 1965, he was a member of the founding committee that established the British Society for the History of Medicine.
His publications included a series of monographs on the history of the neurosciences.
Edwin Clarke was born in Felling-on-Tyne, County Durham, to Joseph Clarke, an artisan. He was educated at Jarrow Central School and subsequently became apprenticed in pharmacy at the dispensary of the Newcastle General Hospital from 1935 to 1938. He simultaneously took evening classes at Rutherford Technical College. In 1939, he gained admission to King's College medical school at the University of Durham, in Newcastle.
During the Second World War, a Rockefeller Foundation funded scheme allowed Clarke to travel to the United States as one of around seventy medical students from the United Kingdom chosen to complete fast-track clinical training. In 1943, he began his studies at the University of Chicago, which he completed in 1945. When he returned to Durham in 1945, he took his MB BS and subsequently received his Chicago MD in 1946.
Clarke completed his postgraduate posts at Oxford with Sir Hugh Cairns and E. M. Buzzard, and in the Royal Army Medical Corps for a further two years with a specialism in neurology (1946 to 1948). He subsequently worked for Charles Symonds at the National Hospital, Queen Square before joining Sir John McMichael's medical department as lecturer and consultant neurologist at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith.
In 1958, Clarke switched career, left clinical work and became assistant scientific secretary to the Wellcome Trust.
Between 1960 and 1962, he spent time at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, followed by some time at the University of California at Los Angeles, and then a year as visiting associate professor at Yale University.
Edwin Clarke
Edwin Sisterton Clarke FRCP (18 June 1919 – 11 April 1996) was a British neurologist and medical historian, best remembered for his role as Director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, when he succeeded Noël Poynter and oversaw the transfer of the Wellcome museum to the Science museum, helped establish an intercalated BSc degree in the history of medicine for medical students and edited the journal Medical History.
In 1958, Clarke left a career in neurology to pursue one in history of medicine. In 1965, he was a member of the founding committee that established the British Society for the History of Medicine.
His publications included a series of monographs on the history of the neurosciences.
Edwin Clarke was born in Felling-on-Tyne, County Durham, to Joseph Clarke, an artisan. He was educated at Jarrow Central School and subsequently became apprenticed in pharmacy at the dispensary of the Newcastle General Hospital from 1935 to 1938. He simultaneously took evening classes at Rutherford Technical College. In 1939, he gained admission to King's College medical school at the University of Durham, in Newcastle.
During the Second World War, a Rockefeller Foundation funded scheme allowed Clarke to travel to the United States as one of around seventy medical students from the United Kingdom chosen to complete fast-track clinical training. In 1943, he began his studies at the University of Chicago, which he completed in 1945. When he returned to Durham in 1945, he took his MB BS and subsequently received his Chicago MD in 1946.
Clarke completed his postgraduate posts at Oxford with Sir Hugh Cairns and E. M. Buzzard, and in the Royal Army Medical Corps for a further two years with a specialism in neurology (1946 to 1948). He subsequently worked for Charles Symonds at the National Hospital, Queen Square before joining Sir John McMichael's medical department as lecturer and consultant neurologist at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith.
In 1958, Clarke switched career, left clinical work and became assistant scientific secretary to the Wellcome Trust.
Between 1960 and 1962, he spent time at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, followed by some time at the University of California at Los Angeles, and then a year as visiting associate professor at Yale University.
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