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Kenneth E. Livingston Papers. Supplement. 1952-1984
130.1
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Title: Kenneth E. Livingston Papers. Supplement.,
Date (inclusive): 1952-1984
Collection number: 130.1
Creator: Livingston, Kenneth E. 1914-1984
Extent: 2 cartons (2.0 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections
for the Sciences
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: The supplement to the main Kenneth E. Livingston
collection (Ms. Collection #130) extends the documentation of his clinical and
research endeavors in limbic system research and in the control of chronic pain.
To his long-term ongoing study of intravenous procaine for pain control, Dr.
Livingston added a small clinical trial on the efficacy of oral tocainide and
was much excited by the results; this later interest is well covered in these
supplemental materials. There are also drafts of ideas and letters concerning
his thoughts on ecology, homeostasis and the brain-mind discussion. All the
Kenneth E. Livingston papers are part of the John C. Liebeskind History of Pain
Collection at UCLA.
Physical location: Southern Regional Library Facility
(SRLF)
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
The Collection is open for research, but access to some materials is
restricted due to patient confidentiality protocols.
[Identification of item], Kenneth E. Livingston Papers. Supplement (Manuscript collection 130.1). Louise M. Darling Biomedical
Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
Gift of Mrs. Katherine Livingston, 1998.
Kenneth Edwin Livingston was born in 1914, in Pendleton, Oregon and died in
Camp Sherman, Oregon, in 1984. He attended Stanford University (BA, 1936) and
Harvard Medical School (MD, 1939), and finished his specialization in
Neurosurgery at the Lahey Clinic, Boston. After service in the U.S. Navy Medical
Corps during World War II he returned to the Lahey Clinic until 1948, when he
relocated to Oregon. In 1960 he was invited to Shiraz University in Iran to
develop the Neurosurgery Service at Nemazee Hospital, and in 1962 was appointed
Visiting Dean at Pahlavi University to develop their Medical School under an
USAID program. For a year after his return to the U.S. in 1966 Dr. Livingston
served as a Consultant to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and
in 1968 he became Professor of Surgery/Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto
and Chief of Neurosurgery at Wellesley Hospital. He served these institutions
until his retirement in 1981.
Dr. Livingston and his Wellesley group did important research in limbic lobe
mechanisms, temporal lobe epilepsy and drug addiction. But it was the question
of pain, what it was and how to ameliorate it, that mainly occupied his mind and
activities in later years. In this interest he followed his father, William K.
Livingston, a renowned neurosurgeon who was equally interested in the problem of
pain.
The papers augment, and may occasionally duplicate, the documents in the main
collection (Ms. Coll. no. 130). They include material on Dr. Livingston's limbic
system research, and especially on his ongoing studies in the control of chronic
pain. A number of drafts report on his use of procaine injections to treat
patients with intractable pain, and on the possible CNS mechanisms that might
explain the drug's results. In his last years before retirement Dr. Livingston
ran a small clinical trial using oral tocainide for pain control and was
impressed by the results. This supplement includes his reports on the tocainide
trial and his future plans for the drug's use. It also includes a few of his
essays and musings on broader questions of biology and society.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Professional Papers, 1952-1984 . 34 folders
- Series 2. Patients, 1970-1982. 19 folders
- Series 3. Miscellaneous, 1957-1984. 5 folders
"Register of the Kenneth E. Livingston Papers, 1935-1984". UCLA Biomedical
Library Ms. Coll. #130. 22 boxes
"Register of the William K. Livingston Papers, 1923-1966". UCLA Biomedical
Library Ms. Coll. #136. 5 boxes
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7386844
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Livingston, Kenneth
E .
Neurosurgery
Pain
Procaine -- therapeutic
use
Tocainide -- therapeutic
use.