The 21st Century
The Pioneer Health Foundation, the charity responsible for the Peckham Experiment continues to exist, the Trustees recognising a need to disseminate the findings and also to keep open the possibility of a further centre or centres opening. Notwithstanding the many changes to society and medicine since the Peckham Experiment, The Pioneer Health Foundation Ltd, as it is now known, believes that the principles identified by Dr George Scott Williamson are basic to health and are of continuing relevance to society. This includes the valuable evidence produced about the relationship between social and home environment and individual motivation and health.
As part of its activities, the Foundation has launched the ‘Mary Langman Prize’; an annual award for an essay on ‘The Relevance of the Peckham Experiment in the 21st Century’ that furthers the lessons learnt at the Pioneer Health Centre about the social, emotional and environmental determinants of health. Mary Langman was personal assistant to Scott Williamson and made a bequest to enable such initiatives.
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