Dr David Stark Murray son of Robert Murray

Robert Murray (Scottish politician)

Robert Murray was a Scottish co-operator and politician who served briefly in Parliament as a member of the Labour Party.-Early life:...

 MP was a consultant

Consultant (medicine)

In the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and parts of the Commonwealth, consultant is the title of a senior doctor who has completed all of his or her specialist training and been placed on the specialist register in their chosen specialty...

  pathologist and President of the Socialist Medical Association

Socialist Health Association

The Socialist Medical Association was founded in 1930, in order to campaign for a National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It took in many of those who had been active in the State Medical Service Association...

 1951–70. He was active in campaigning for the establishment of the British National Health Service

National Health Service

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He was the author of The Future of Medicine (Penguin), Health For All (Gollancz) and Why a National Health Service? (Pemberton Books 1971).

For many years he edited the Socialist Doctor, Medicine Today and Tomorrow, and Socialism and Health. He wrote innumerable articles on the health service under his own name and under pseudonyms, specially that of Irwin Brown.

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