Ce bronze représente le Grand père de mon fils Christopher McKEE qui etait pionnier dans les prothèses complete de hanche. Ce chirurgien célèbre pour ses travaux à reçu de nombreux titres dont vous trouverez le détail dans l'extrait Wikipedia ci dessous.
J'ai toujours eu une grande admiration pour mon beau père, un homme exceptionnel dans ses recherches. La dernière opération de hanche à laquelle Kenneth à assisté était en France en 1988 et c'était ma hanche avant mon mariage avec son fils Mickael McKEE
Source Wikipedia Kenneth Mckee
Early life
Ken's father had been a medical practitioner in Northern Ireland in the late 19th century but had migrated to England around 1900. Ken was born in Ilford, Essex, in 1906, attending Chigwell School and then studying medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College. He received his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1934. He worked at the Sheffield Royal Hospital before being appointed consultant in orthopaedics at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (N&N) in 1939.
Hip replacement work
Ken moved to Norfolk in 1939. He worked in Norwich at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (N&N), which he joined in 1939 as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon,[3] going on to pioneer primary hip replacements in the 1950s. According to Hugh Phillips, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2004–2005, "Ken McKee started experimenting with model hip joints in 1938, working with dentists and an engineering firm in Norwich to create the original brass mock-ups. He carried out his first primary hip replacement on a patient in 1951, before Sir John Charnley perfected his own version."[2]
He retired to Tacolneston in the 1970s.
Commemorations
In 1972 in recognition of his services to orthopaedic surgery he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire and three years later received an Honorary Doctorate of Science of Cambridge University. He was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1986.
In addition to a bronze bust cast by his daughter-in-law, the Belgian sculptor Myriam De Kepper, Ken McKee's work at the hospital is remembered with a residence block, McKee House, at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital[3] and a road, Kenneth McKee Plain, built on the former N&N site.[4]
| Ce portrait qui fait partie de la collection de chirurgiens ayant exercé au Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Hospital Arts Project, Colney Lane, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7UY England et que vous pouvez retrouver en situation sur le site artuk.org |  |
Présentation Audio de "GEORGE KENNETH McKEE" par Myriam De Kepper
