Dr Diane Katherine Chisholm 1955-98 Dr Steven Watkins 1950- Professor Richard Wilkinson 1943- Dr Peter Draper 1933-2016 Dr Julian Tudor Hart 1927- Dr David Leigh Kerr 1923-2009 Dr Cyril Taylor 1921-2000 Dr. Herbert Bach 1913-71 Sir Richard Doll 1912-2005 Dr Elizabeth Hilliard 1903-2001 Dr Julius Lipetz 1903-1972 Dr Edith Summerskill MP 1901-80 Dr Charles W Brook 1901-83 Dr David Stark Murray 1900-77 Samuel and … Read more
This is a page of resources relating to the history of the SHA and of socialism and health generally. General websites are at the bottom, specific items in reverse chronological order at the top. Some of the material carries no date, so I have attempted to deduce a likely date. The archives of the Socialist … Read more
Published from 1937 to 1965. Run by an independent company from 1938 as “a forum for expression of all forms of progressive thought within the medical profession”. Edited by Dr David Stark Murray 1960 Drugs and the Health Service June 1940 Problems of the Post War Practitioner Charles Wortham Brook November 1937 Vital Foods are Too Dear October 1937 Happiness in … Read more
Extracts from A Political History of the Socialist Medical Association, 1930–51 by John Stewart, reproduced with permission CHAPTER THREE The People’s Health This chapter examines the founding of the Socialist Medical Association and its consequent organisational development in the 1930s, including affiliation to the Labour Party in 1931. It further analyses the principles on which the … Read more
Medical History; 1995,39: 338-357 (some of the footnotes have been editted) JOHN STEWART School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 OBP. I wish to thank Anne Digby, Harry Hendrick. Emyr Wyn Jones, Charles Webster, and this journal’s anonymous referees for their helpful comments. A paper given at the Oxford Wellcome Unit … Read more
A Political Option: the SMA The Socialist Medical Association was founded in 1930. It has never been an exclusively medical organisation, but has always been open to other health workers and to other socialists who are interested in health. Nonetheless it is clear that in its origins it was dominated by doctors and it remained … Read more
NHS Consultants Association, no date, but probably 1980 INTRODUCTION ‘The seeds exist, and may have already germinated, for expansion of private medical care through the forms of supplementary insurance provided by the Provident Associations which may secure the advantages of increased resources for health care and open more scope for patient choice.’ This was the … Read more
Address to the 50th Anniversary Conference by Dr Leslie Hilliard (1980): The 50th anniversary of the Socialist Medical Association is indeed a historic occasion. Many societies and associations are formed in this country. Some grow large and become well established, but the majority remain small and generally wither away after ten or twenty years. The … Read more
Mental Health seminar held on SUNDAY 23 MARCH 1975 at the ASSEMBLY HALL, UNITY HOUSE, EUSTON ROAD, LONDON NW1. Reported by Mr. T. W. HURST, F.H.A., A.C.I.S. Published by SOCIALIST MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 9 Poland Street London W1V 3DG Tel: 01439 3395 INTRODUCTION The chair for the morning session was taken by Dr. David Stark Murray, past President of … Read more
SOCIALIST THINKERS in Germany and Austria were a little ahead of their British contemporaries in preparing schemes for basic medical treatment services and it was from one of these, a Dr Ewald Fabian who practised dentistry in Berlin, that a direct stimulus to form a socialist organization came. What has been said about the National … Read more
THE NEXT PERIOD of the Socialist Medical Association history need not be given in so much detail since it deals with alteration in elements of a service which was now clearly being run on the principles laid down; and the chief effort of the Association became the protection of the National Health Service from the … Read more
THIS WAS A.TIME OF EXPANSION in thought, in action, in total membership and in the quality of leadership so far as the Socialist Medical Association was concerned. The SMA now had many professorial figures connected with its work. Major Greenwood and J. R. Marrack were very active members and support was always forthcoming from figures … Read more