Obituaries
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8 Dec 2009 - 13:33
Antonia Hunt
From 1 June 1935 to 3 October 2009
One of the original group of volunteers who began working with torture survivors during the founding years of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture has died at the age of 74.
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26 Feb 2009 - 13:52
The British psychiatrist and consultant on global health and mental health issues, Dr Jack Piachaud has died. He was 60. His career was devoted to the countless people across the globe whose health, wellbeing and access to proper health care are jeopardised by the effects of war, poverty and environmental damage. Dr Piachaud's multi-faceted career and voluntary activities were a reflection of his humanity and his passions.
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13 Mar 2008 - 11:33
Diana Brandenbuger, art therapist at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture since 1997 and artist in residence, died in February 2008. -
27 Jan 2007 - 15:40
Dr Petra Clarke, an MF doctor who campaigned to change British medical and legal opinion by arguing that politically motivated rape was both torture and a crime, died in January 2007. -
6 Sep 2006 - 11:37
Madeline Blakeney, a former stage and television actress who for a number years as a volunteer ran the MF's Holiday Scheme, died in September 2006. -
22 Jul 2006 - 10:32
Neurologist Dr John Rundle, who worked as an examining doctor for both the Medical Foundation, and the Helen Bamber Foundation, and helped shape the nascent field of human rights medicine, died July 2006. -
27 Jun 2006 - 11:35
Joan Wilson , 10.06.26- 27.06 06. Born in London, her father a doctor, her mother a nurse, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, MB ChB 1949, married a fellow medical student, Cedric Wilson, who became Professor of Pharmacology at Trinity College Dublin and subsequently a geriatrician in Scotland. -
6 Dec 2004 - 16:46
Duncan Forrest, who has died suddenly at home in Kent just short of his 82nd birthday, made an enormous contribution to the field of paediatric surgery and then, during an active retirement, developed a second medical career in the field of human rights and documenting evidence of torture at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.