As a medical student in Paris, he studied with renowned physicians that included Pierre-Joseph Desault (1744–1795), Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755-1821), Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1771–1802) and Philippe Pinel (1745–1826).
It is a pity that Willard omits pointing to the medical works of this era (Pinel, Cabanis, etc.).
Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Philippe Pinel (1745–1826), French physician who held advanced views on investigation of disease and first succeeded in abolishing severe physical restraints on mental cases, in 1796.
Set in Paris during the French Revolution, it tells the story of Philippe Pinel and his efforts in pointing out that the mentally ill should not be treated as animals.
Philippe Starck | Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans | Philippe II, Duke of Orléans | Philippe Parreno | Philippe Pétain | Philippe Herreweghe | Louis Philippe I | Philippe Pinel | Jean-Philippe Rameau | Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque | Philippe I, Duke of Orléans | Philippe Quinault | Philippe Gilbert | Philippe Entremont | Philippe Beaussant | Philippe Léotard | Philippe Jaroussky | Philippe Douste-Blazy | Philippe d'Orléans | Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil | Philippe C. Schmitter | Philippe Boesmans | Philippe Bercovici | Jean-Philippe Collard | Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans | Prince Ferdinand Philippe | Prince Charles Philippe, Duke of Anjou | Pinel | Philippe Troussier | Philippe Saisse |
Philippe Pinel played a large role in the ethical and humane treatment of patients and greatly influenced Dorothea Dix.
In the 18th century, the taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus, Francois Boissier de Sauvages, and psychiatrist Philippe Pinel developed an early classification of physical illnesses.
The concept of psychopathy has been indirectly connected to the early 1800s with the work of Pinel (1801; "mania without delirium") and Pritchard (1835; "moral insanity"), although historians have largely discredited the idea of a direct equivalence.
Philippe Pinel lived on Bliantch'Île from 1848 to 1898 and exchanged gifts with Queen Victoria.