Enoch "Noch" Callaway III (July 12, 1924 – August 18, 2014) was an American psychiatrist and a pioneer in

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Biography

Callaway was born on July 12, 1924, into an old southern family of doctors in La Grange, Georgia. He is a descendant of the family that founded the Callaway Plantation in

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and

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in Pine Mountain, Georgia. Members of his extended family also include Ely Callaway Jr., founder of

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, textile manufacturer Fuller Earle Callaway, and former

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and Georgia Congressman

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. He graduated from

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in 1944 and obtained his M.D. from

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in 1947. He completed his residency at

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and pursued advanced study at

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. In 1959, Callaway was appointed director of research of the

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and continued in that capacity as professor until 1986, when he moved to

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and remained there until his retirement in 1994. Among the students he mentored was

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, professor at the

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and founder and editor-in-chief of ''

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''. Callaway is known for his contributions to

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and

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. He was made a distinguished life fellow of the

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in 1982. He also co-founded the

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. After leaving UCSF, he co-founded Neurobiological Technologies, a biotech company that sought to develop drugs to treat strokes and brain cancer. In 2007, his book Asylum: A Mid-Century Madhouse and Its Lessons about Our Mentally Ill Today was published by Praeger. (Confirmed on Wolrdcat.org, where it is OCLC 123029478) Callaway died on August 18, 2014, in his home in

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References

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