Wing, Professor John Kenneth (1923-2010)
- Wing, J. K. (John Kenneth), 1923-
- Date:
- 1960s-1990s
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- PP/WNG
- Archives and manuscripts
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The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:
Papers of Professor John Wing. Many of the papers relate to Professor Wing's work with the Medical Research Council or the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Research Unit. Projects that are particularly well represented are SCAN (a WHO document: "Schedules for Clinical Assessments in Neuropsychiatry"), which occurs are various points in the collection of papers; 3HIP (1970 study of Institutionalisation and schizophrenia in three hospitals: there was also a follow-up study 30 years on); and the Camberwell High Contact Study.
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Whilst studying he met his future wife, Dr. Lorna Wing, who was also to become eminent in the field of psychiatry, in particular regarding autism; they had one daughter. Professor Wing died in 2010.
His obituary can be read in The Times for 1st May 2010 or The Psychiatrist (2010) 34: 501.
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- 1618