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About Richard Alfred Hunter
- Richard Alfred Hunter FRCP (11 November 1923 – 25 November 1981) was a British physician of German origin, and president of the History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1972 to 1973. He was a psychiatrist, historian and book collector.
- With his mother, Dr Ida Macalpine, also a psychiatrist, he wrote Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry 1535 to 1860, Oxford University Press, 1963, using title pages from books in his collection to illustrate this first full chronicle of British psychiatry.
- Each book is accompanied by an essay describing its place in medical and social history.
- It remains a unique and important source for the history and bibliography of psychiatry in Britain before 1860.
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