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Richard Alan John Asher, né le 3 avril 1912 à Brighton et mort le 25 avril 1969 à Londres dans le quartier de Marylebone, est un médecin endocrinologue et hématologue britannique à qui l'on doit la description, en 1951, du syndrome de Münchausen [1], [2].
Richard Asher (1912-1969) was a British physician and medical writer who coined the term Munchausen syndrome. He was known for his critical and provocative articles on various medical topics and his family connections to Peter and Jane Asher.
Ce terme a été inventé par l’endocrinologue et hématologue britanique Richard Asher en 1951 dans une de ses publications dansle Lancet. Mais déjà au XIXème siècle, le neurologue Jean-Martin Charcot avait décrit ce trouble par « chirurgicomanie » ou encore « mania operativa ».
Syndrome de Münschhausen « par procuration ». Décrit par Richard Asher (1951), le syndrome de Münchhausen comportait au départ un simple « H » (résultant d’une anglicisation lors des premières publications en anglais).
- Serge Bornstein
- 2011
26 janv. 2002 · The inspiration for much of Asher's work was unfortunately also to be the cause of the abrupt end to his career. In 1964, after the decision to transfer the care of patients on the mental observation ward to a psychiatrist, Richard Asher retired from medicine. He died 5 years later at the age of 57.
- Joanne Turner, Steven Reid
- 2002
29 avr. 2016 · Richard Asher was a superb physician who changed medicine and psychiatry and left some important lessons that we still need to learn. One of the foremost medical thinkers of his time, his thinking was characterised by clear logical ideas.
10 juin 2015 · A tribute to Richard Asher, an English physician and writer, who coined the term "Munchausen's Syndrome" and advocated for generalism and clarity in medicine. Learn about his life, work, style, and legacy from Seamus O'Mahony, a consultant physician in Cork.
