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David Cooper

1931 - 1986

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David Graham Cooper (1931 – 29 July 1986) was a South African-born psychiatrist and theorist who was prominent in the anti-psychiatry movement. Cooper graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1955. R.D. Laing claimed that Cooper underwent Soviet training to prepare him as an anti-apartheid communist revolutionary, but after completing his course he never returned to South Africa out of fear that the Bureau of State Security would eliminate him. He moved to London, where he worked at several hospitals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Cooper is the 473rd most popular physician (down from 422nd in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 55th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, David Cooper ranks 473 out of 726. Before him are William Stukeley, Kazimierz Bein, Diocles of Carystus, Helen B. Taussig, William Chester Minor, and Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra. After him are Petrus Alphonsi, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, William Turner, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, David Cooper ranks 255. Before him are Michel Deville, José Alencar, Willie Mays, Richard Ratsimandrava, Hana Brady, and David Wilkerson. After him are Dino da Costa, Mickey Mantle, Allen Klein, Bob Anderson, Duško Gojković, and Nílton de Sordi. Among people deceased in 1986, David Cooper ranks 138. Before him are Josef Kammhuber, Lili Kraus, Teddy Wilson, Helen B. Taussig, Leona Woods, and Henry Russell. After him are Anatoly Marchenko, Sandro Puppo, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Broderick Crawford, Otto Glória, and Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, David Cooper ranks 80 out of 454. Before him are Cyril Cusack (1910), Ronald Harwood (1934), Oliver Tambo (1917), Piet Joubert (1834), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), and Gordon Murray (1946). After him are Marlene Dumas (1953), Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), J. L. B. Smith (1897), Walter Sisulu (1912), Alice Krige (1954), and Laurens van der Post (1906).

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Among PHYSICIANS In South Africa

Among physicians born in South Africa, David Cooper ranks 2. Before him are Christiaan Barnard (1922).

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