the part played by the Socialist Medical Association D. Stark Murray PEMBERTON BOOKS 1971 INTRODUCTION The year 1970 was the fortieth year of the Socialist Medical Association which has had a unique political history that seems worthy of some detailed study. The SMA was founded in 1930 for one purpose, the introduction of a national … Read more
David Stark Murray Fabian occasional paper 6 15p Somerville Hastings memorial lecture This paper is based on the third Somerville Hastings memorial lecture delivered at Ruskin College, Oxford in February 1971. The lecture was endowed by the Socialist Medical Association. This pamphlet, like all publications of the Fabian Society, represents not the collective view of … Read more
Pamphlet published by the Socialist Medical Association about 1960, price one shilling. By SOMERVILLE HASTINGS, F.R.C.S. Past President S.M.A.; Labour M.P. Reading 1923-24 and 1929-31, Barking 1945-59; Alderman L.C.C. Nye Bevan was the best debater in the House, at any rate as far as my experience goes. Lloyd George was a greater orator but his … Read more
Bevan is the most significant figure in the history of the NHS and deserves a page to himself. He was never a member of the Socialist Medical Association, but clearly got to know some of the leading figures quite well during the agitation around the establishment of the NHS. He is still invoked in argument, … Read more
THE FRONT COVER DESIGN is from the bronze statue by GIULIO MONTEVERDE “JENNER’S FIRST VACCINATION, MAY 16TH, 1796” in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London. . . . from The President of the SMA DR. DAVID STARK MURRAY, B.Sc., M.B. Ch.B. IN its quarter century of life the Socialist Medical Association has seen the realisation … Read more
The WHAT, WHY and HOW of the National Health Service ST. BOTOLPH PUBLISHING CO., LTD., 5, Little Britain. London, E.C.1 D. Stark Murray and L. C. J. McNae 1946 INTRODUCTION By the beginning of 1948 Britain is promised the start of a National Health Service that will be the envy of and model for all … Read more
SOCIALIST MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 5, Long Acre London, W.C.2. Confidential by D. Stark Murray There are many rumours and suggestions as to the intentions of the new Minister of Health, and it will be as well for the Council of the SMA to consider these and make some preliminary decisions as to the attitude to be … Read more
SOCIALIST MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 59 New Oxford Street, London, WCl A new world is in the making and everywhere the democratic forces are gaining in the struggle against reaction. The people of Britain have expressed in no uncertain terms their views and their wishes for the future, in the magnificent majority they have given to the … Read more
Soon after I had qualified as a medical practitioner in 1925, my father gave me a copy of Fielding H. Garrison’s “History of Medicine.” This gift not only provided me with a valuable reference book, but it also whetted my appetite for reading Medical History. Over fifteen years later, correspondence with Guy A. Aldred, LL.D., of … Read more
By David Stark Murray Undated but probably 1944 Author’s Note A new national health service will be one of the great social advances made by the present Labour Government. It will follow lines elaborated in many books and pamphlets and familiar to those who have studied the subject. It is, however, of vital importance to the ordinary … Read more
Dr Charles Wortham Brook OCTOBER 1943 Having been engaged for a long period in general practice, originally from personal choice, and having, as a member of a local authority learned to appreciate the viewpoint of the permanent official, I can perhaps claim to enjoy the advantage of being able to consider the problem of the … Read more
Dr David Stark Murray 1942 Introduction Medical science has indeed taken its place—with food, shelter, and sex—as one of the primary necessities of life. Without health man cannot enjoy life; without some method of preserving and restoring health he is subject to many diseases and mishaps which may endanger life itself. The human body is a complicated … Read more