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Dec 12, 2007 · Since he’d been a child, Brock Chisholm had wanted to become a doctor. He enrolled in medicine at the University of Toronto in 1919 and graduated in 1924. That same year, he married Grace Ryrie, whom he had met 10 years earlier.
George Brock Chisholm CC CBE MC ED (18 May 1896 – 4 February 1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical practitioner, World War I veteran, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Jun 9, 2009 · Based on an extensive search through the archives of WHO and related records, Brock Chisholm is an attempt by Farley, a Dalhousie University medical historian, to clarify the often entangled relationships between an idealistic leader, a fledgling organization for a new world order and a pitiless Cold War confrontation.
- S. William A. Gunn
- 2009
Dr. Chisholm, who began his medical career as a physician in private practice, effectively became “Doctor to the World,” with a practice embracing 3 billion people, helping build the cooperative international institutions that sustain the world today.
Although an Ontarian by birth, G. Brock Chisholm has a lot in common with British Columbians, and it is only fitting that UBC Press and the BCMJ should be recording his legacy 60 years after his remarkable, sometimes stormy but always wise stewardship of the nascent World Health Organization (WHO). Chisholm’s retirement years were spent in ...
Jan 1, 2009 · This is the story of a man and an institution: Brock Chisholm, world-renowned psychiatrist, one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century, and first director-general of the World Health Organization, which he built up against overwhelming political odds after the Second World War.
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The WHO became a permanent UN fixture in April 1948, and Chisholm became the agency's first Director General on a 46–2 vote. Chisholm was now in the unique position of being able to bring his views on the importance of international mental and physical health to the world.
