Joan Bicknell, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Joan Bicknell

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1939

Date of Death: 12-Jun-2017

Profession: human rights activist

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Joan Bicknell (April 10, 1939 - June 12, 2017) was Britain´s first female psychiatry professor.
She worked at St George's, University of London and pioneered the area of learning disability.
She confronted cruelty at psychiatric hospitals and was a human rights advocate of institutionalized people with intellectual disabilities, unpopular with and never accepted by the medical establishment.
She introduced multidisciplinary hospital management and community-based care.