Author, NIMH Epidemiologist Matthew Huxley Dies at 84

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20050217
Author:Patricia Sullivan

Matthew Huxley, 84, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Mental Health and the son of author Aldous Huxley, died of cardiac shock Feb. 10 in Reading, Pa.

Mr. Huxley was an author, educator and anthropologist, and his work ranged from promoting universal health care to establishing standards of care for nursing home patients and the mentally ill to investigating the question of what is a socially sanctionable drug.

He spent most of the 1960s at the National Institute of Mental Health. Then, in 1968, he became director of seminars at the Smithsonian Institution, creating what has ...

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