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"Obituary: Jacques M. May (1896-1975)
Wilma B. Fairchild
Geographical Review, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Apr., 1976), pp. 236-237
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"Jacques M. May, one of the nation's most illustrious physicians, and his nutritionist wife, Donna, were killed in an auto accident in Tunisia on June 30, 1975. The Mays were in Tunisia as consultants to the Tunisian National Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology under sponsor ship of the United Nations and the Agency for International Development. ceiDverd. JahciqsuesbacMhealyo,r'sa, namtiveedicoafl Paarnisd, Fdraoncctoer, reof philosophy degrees from the University of Paris.
He served in the French Army during World War I, and subsequent to his medical training served as a surgeon in Bangkok, Thailand, and as Professor of Medicine at the Hanoi Medical College in North Vietnam until the outbreak of World War II. During the War, he served as a senior surgeon in the Free French Forces in Singapore, Chungking, Africa, and London, including duties on the immediate staff of General Charles de Gaulle.
In 1948, he settled in the United States as Director of the Department of Medical Geography, American Geographical Society, New York City, where he remained until 1960, becoming an hAemewricaasn wciditeizlyen rdeucorignngizetdhis apseritohde. wByorltdh'sis tmimoes,teminent medical geographer. His maps of the global distribution of numerous infectious and nutritional diseases became commonly used took in medical education throughout the world.
During these earlier years, he developed a recognition of the role of inadequate food and resultant malnutrition as underlying causes of problems of poor health of the vast majority of mankind, and he became a leading spokesman for this philosophy. He devoted his efforts primarily to international nutrition until the time of his death, particularly through the activities of the Agency for International Development and the former Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense. Among his most outstanding contributions is a series of volumes published over the past 15 years under U.S. Army and Navy sponsorship, describing the ecology of malnutrition throughout most countries of the world; his wife was co-author of a number of these volumes.
He also was author of "An Adas of Disease," "The Ecology of Human Disease," and "A Physician Looks at Psychiatry." Dr. May was un equalled in his ability to examine malnutrition in the perspective of the economics, natural resources, culture, and degree of industrial and com mercial progress found in developing countries. His most positive influence on innumerable younger scientists and other professionals all over the world is his invaluable and lasting legacy. Dr. May was founder and president of the May Institute for Autistic Children in Chatham, Massa chusetts; and a Knight of the French Legion of Honor.
Condolences from the staff of the Tunisian National Institute of Nutrition and Food Tech nology confirmed the deep mark left around the wanodrldhisat lothveelylosws ifoef, twhiisth etlhfleessstaatnedmewnta:rm"Cmoann tinuation of the enormous task is our faithful vow—a task so greatly impaired by the loss of Jacques and Donna May—which at the same time will provide us all with consolation." Laurent Laloup le lundi 05 novembre 2007 Contribution au livre ouvert de Jacques Meyer May | |
