W. S. C. Copeman

Dr William Sidney Charles Copeman CBE TD MA MD FRCP (1900 – 24 November 1970) was a rheumatologist and a medical historian.[1]

As a rheumatologist, Copeman was influential in the running of the Heberden Society, the foundation and editorship of the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, and the first editor of the Textbook of the Rheumatic Diseases which was first published in 1948. He worked at the Arthur Stanley Institute for Rheumatic Diseases at Middlesex Hospital,[2] as well as being the consultant rheumatologist for the British Army and the Royal Star and Garter Home, Richmond.[1]

As a medical historian, Copeman gave the Fitzpatrick Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians, which formed the content for his 1960 book Doctors and Diseases in Tudor Times. He also published a book on the History of Gout and Rheumatic Diseases which stemmed from lectures given at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was also elected a fellow of the International Academy of the History of Medicine.[3]

He was the son of Dr Sydney Copeman, also a well-known physician. During World War I, he served as an officer with the Coldstream Guards.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Porritt AE, Dudley Hart F (1992). "W S C Copeman: his importance in contemporary medicine.". Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 51 (2): 283–5. doi:10.1136/ard.51.2.283. PMC 1005678Freely accessible. PMID 1550419.
  2. ↑ Alan Ebringer (8 November 2012). Ankylosing spondylitis and Klebsiella. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-4471-4300-0.
  3. ↑ "W. S. C. Copeman, C.B.E., T.D., M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. (1900–1970)". Medical History. 15 (1): 96. January 1971. doi:10.1017/S0025727300016203.
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