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Ronald Melzack Fonds
Fonds
6 moving images
Ronald Melzack, OC OQ FRSC, born July 19, 1929, Montreal, Quebec, is a Canadian psychologist and emeritus professor of psychology at McGill University. In 1965, he and Patrick David Wall revolutionized pain research by introducing the gate control theory of pain; founding member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP); author of several textbooks on pain; co-editor of Handbook of Pain Assessment, 1992. He has also published books of Inuit stories and won the Canada Council Molson Prize in 1985.
The Ronald Melzack fonds contains 6 videotapes, 1 Radio-Quebec program "Les Prix du Quebec, 1994" and 5 taped lectures in the "University of the air" series, 1978.
Deposited by Ronald Melzack, 1 August 1992
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