Melzack, Ronald (Personal Name)

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- )