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Colin Murray Parkes
British psychiatrist (1928–2024)
Colin Murray Parkes | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1928-03-06)March 6, 1928 Highgate, London |
| Died | January 13, 2024(2024-01-13) (aged 95) |
| Awards | OBE |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bereavement |
| Institutions | Royal London Hospital Medical College St. Christopher's Hospice |
Colin Murray ParkesOBE (6 March 1928 – 13 January 2024) was a British psychiatrist and the author of numerous books and publications on grief.[1] He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to bereaved people in June 1996.
Life and career
Colin Murray Parkes was born in Highgate, London on 6 March 1928.[2][3] From 1966, Parkes worked at St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, where he set up the first hospice-based bereavement service and carried out some of the earliest systematic evaluations of hospice care.
Parkes served as an honorary consultant psychiatri
