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Roland Littlewood: in conversation with Rosalind Ramsay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rosalind Ramsay
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Professor Roland Martin Littlewood was born in 1947. He started his training at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School London, where he obtained his BSc and later graduated MB, BS in 1973. Further studying at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Oxford led to a Diploma In Social Anthropology, obtained in 1979, and a DPhil in Social Anthropology, gained in 1987. He was awarded the MRCPsych In 1978. Since then his impressive career has been marked by equally impressive distinctions, such as the presidency of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1994–1997. Having reviewed over 200 books, Professor Littlewood is himself the author of four: Pathology and Identity: The Work of Mother Earth In Trinidad (1993) won the Wellcome Medal For Anthropology as Applied to Medicine in 1993. He has also written innumerable scientific, theoretical and review papers and edited three books. Professor Littlewood has recently been elected Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 23 , Issue 12: The Journal of Trends in Psychiatric Practice , December 1999 , pp. 733 - 739
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