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 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 14/06/96 |  |
Donald Acheson has had several medical careers: as a clinician in Oxford, an epidemiologist, the founder dean of Southampton Medical School, and the chief medical officer to the Department of Health. Nowhere was this wide experience put to more humane use than in his approach to AIDS. He was able to calm public panic, avoiding scapegoating of homosexuals, and developed a humane policy for the care of patients as well as policies on prevention. Subsequently he spearheaded the United Nations medical relief for the victims of the Bosnian war in Sarajevo. Links to the BMJ archive Editorial - Preventing genocide - Episodes must be exposed, documented, and punished by Donald Acheson |