Melzack, Ronald

LC control no.	n 50007206
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Melzack, Ronald *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
See also	Founder: International Association for the Study of Pain *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Associated country	Canada
Birth date	1929-07-19
Death date	2019-12-22
Place of birth	Montréal (Québec)
Field of activity	Psychology Pain Eskimo mythology
Affiliation	McGill University International Association for the Study of Pain Order of Canada
Profession or occupation	Psychologists College teachers
Found in	His The day Tuk became a hunter & other Eskimo stories, 1967. Wikipedia, July 10, 2014 (Ronald Melzack, OC OQ FRSC (born July 19, 1929, Montreal, Quebec); 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) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Melzack> The New York times, 12 January 2020, online, viewed 18 March 2020 (Ronald Melzack, a psychologist, died on Dec. 22 in a hospital near his home in Montreal, where he lived; born Ronald Hyman Melzack on July 19, 1929, in Montreal; studied psychology as an undergraduate at McGill and went on to complete a Ph.D. there in 1964; did postdoctoral research at the University of Oregon Medical School and spent several years at M.I.T. before returning to McGill where he finished his career as a professor of psychology; codeveloped the gate control theory of pain perception and helped establish the McGill Pain Clinic; received many awards, including the Order of Canada and l'Ordre du Quebec) Canada. Governor General. Honours Recipients database, viewed 18 March 2020 (Mr. Ronald Melzack; Montréal, Quebec; Officer of the Order of Canada, awarded on May 4, 1995, invested on November 16, 1995; As the co-author of the "gate control theory of pain", his research has contributed enormously to our understanding of pain mechanisms and pain therapy. A professor of psychology with a superb teaching reputation, he developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire, which has become a widely used measuring tool in pain research and has been translated into every major language) Canadiana, viewed 18 March 2020 (authorized access point (0101G7989): Melzack, Ronald, 1929- )
Associated language	eng