Henry Wellcome
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 87 years ago |
| Date of birth | August 21,1853 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Almond |
| Wisconsin | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | July 25,1936 |
| Died | The London Clinic |
| London | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Spouse | Syrie Maugham |
| Children | Henry Mounteney Wellcome |
| Parents | S. C. Wellcome |
| Mary Curtis Wellcome | |
| Job | Entrepreneur |
| Books | The story of Metlakahtla |
| The Evolution of Antiseptic Surgery: An Historical Sketch of the Use of Antiseptics from the Earliest Times | |
| From Ergot to Ernutin: An Historical Sketch | |
| Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft; an Historical Sketch of Early English Medicine | |
| Wellcome's Excerpta Therapeutica | |
| Handbook of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum | |
| Medicine in Ancient Erin; an Historical Sketch From Celtic to Mediaeval Times | |
| Souvenir Programme: Reception to the African Society, July 11th, 1928 [electronic Resource]: The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum | |
| Henry Wellcome: The Man, His Collection and His Legacy | |
| Education | Saint Joseph's University - University City Campus |
| Founded | Wellcome Collection |
| Wellcome Trust | |
| Burroughs Wellcome & Company | |
| The Wellcome Foundation | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 457033 |
Henry Wellcome Life story
Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome FRS was an American pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Company with his colleague Silas Burroughs in 1880, which is one of the four large companies to eventually merge to form GlaxoSmithKline.
Wellcome Collection closes 'racist, sexist and ableist' Medicine Man display
By Rachel RussellBBC News
A museum in London is closing one of its main exhibitions following concerns over " racist, sexist and ableist theories and language".
The Wellcome Collection says The Medicine Man display will end on Sunday after a 15-year run.
Founder Henry Wellcome , who died in 1936, collected More Than A Million objects to give an insight into global health and medicine.
The Museum has marked the closure as a " significant turning point".
Controversial objects include a 1916 painting titled " A Medical Missionary Attending to a Sick African" which depicts an African person kneeling in front of a white missionary.
The Museum " We can't change our past. But we can work towards a future where we give voice to the narratives and lived experiences of those who have been silenced, erased and ignored.
" We tried to do this with some of the pieces in Medicine Man using artist interventions. But the display still perpetuates a version of medical history that is based on racist, sexist and ableist theories and language. "
It added that exhibiting The Collection of paintings, books and anatomical models told a colonial story of A Man with " enormous wealth, power and privilege".
The Statement continued: " The result was A Collection that told a global story of health and medicine in which disabled people, Black People , Indigenous Peoples and people of colour were exoticised, marginalised and exploited - or even missed out altogether. "
The Wellcome Collection 's website says a new exhibition featuring health stories of people who have been previously marginalised or even erased from museums will be unveiled in The Coming years.
The Museum brought in a new director called Melanie Keen in 2019, according to The Guardian .
She Said at The Time she wanted to address who the objects in The Museum really belonged to and how they were acquired.
Ms Keen said: " It feels like an impossible place to be worrying about this material we hold without interrogating what it is, what narratives there are to be understood in a more profound way, and how The Material came to be in our collection. "
Source of news: bbc.com
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