Archie Cochrane
Archibald Leman Cochrane (born January 12, 1909 in Galashiels , Scotland , † June 18, 1988 in Dorset , England ) was a British epidemiologist and founder of evidence-based medicine .
From 1932 to 1935 Cochrane was in psychoanalytic treatment with Theodor Reik (in Berlin, Vienna and The Hague) because of his porphyria . Cochrane interrupted his medical studies, begun in 1934 at University College Hospital in London, to participate in the Spanish Civil War on the part of the International Brigades from 1936 to 1937 . He completed his studies on March 14, 1938. As a war participant in the Royal Army Medical Corps (since 1939), Cochrane fell into German captivity in Crete in 1941 and was interned first in Greece and then in Germany .
After the Second World War he undertook studies on pneumoconiosis in Welsh miners and from 1947 to 1948 in the USA on the epidemiology of tuberculosis . With the publication of his seminal book Effectiveness and Efficiency - Random Reflections on Health Services in 1972, Cochrane is considered the father of evidence-based medicine.
The international network Cochrane Collaboration was founded in 1993 and named after him.
Web links
- Introduction to an interview by Max Blythe
- Biography (and image source)
- Cochrane: pioneer of evidence-based medicine , article on Scinexx.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Archibald Leman Cochrane: Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services , 2nd Edition, Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, London 1989, ISBN 0-7279-0282-2 .
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| SURNAME | Cochrane, Archie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cochrane, Archibald Leman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British epidemiologist and founder of evidence-based medicine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Galashiels , Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1988 |
| Place of death | Dorset , England |