Humphrey Melville Edward Kay: an appreciation

摘要

Humphrey Kay, who edited the Journal of Clinical Pathology from 1972 until 1980, has died at the age of 86. He succeeded the founding editor, Gordon Signy, and during his tenure consolidated the format of the Journal which largely holds to this day. Under his control and encouragement it became a monthly publication which attracted papers from all branches of pathology and stressed the clinical aspects rather than mere laboratory aspects of disease. He was concerned with the concept of clinical pathology at a time when pressures from individual disciplines seemed to be dividing pathology into independent and rather self-centred domains.