Dr David Stark Murray (14 July 1900 – 16 September 1977), son of Robert Murray MP was a

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pathologist, writer, and president of the Socialist Medical Association 1951–70. He was active in campaigning for the establishment of the British National Health Service. He was born at 244 Main Street, Barrhead, Scotland, and qualified in 1925 from Glasgow University. He came to London in 1927 as pathologist to the Lambeth Hospital under the Board of Guardians. He lived at 33 Murray Road, Northwood, London. Then followed appointments as Consulting Pathologist to the Royal Hospital Richmond and other hospitals in the area, Group Pathologist in the Emergency Medical Service (1939) at Kingston, Surrey and from 1948, under the NHS, Group Pathologist, Kingston Hospital until his retirement in 1965. He established laboratories at Richmond and Kingston and the central sterile supplies department at Kingston Hospital. He was Chairman of the

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of the South West Metropolitan Region of the NHS. He was president of the Surrey Branch of the

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. In October 1962 he went to the University of Chicago to talk to students about the fight for socialized medicine. 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.

Publications

* The Laboratory: its Place in the Modern World 1934 * Science Fights Death 1936 * Your Body: How it is Built and How it Works, London, Watts & Co., 1936 * Health for all V. Gollancz, 1942.
The Future Of Medicine
Penguin 1942
Your Health, Mr. Smith
1946
Now for Health
with L. C. J. McNae St Botolph Publishing 1946 * The anatomy of man and other animals, or, brothers under the skin 1951 * Medical Care and Family Security (with

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, and

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) Prentice-Hall, 1963 * India—which Century? Gollancz, 1967
Why a National Health Service?
Pemberton Books 1971
Medical Care: Who gets the best service?
Fabian Society 1971 * Blueprint for Health Schocken Books, 1974 * Health for 1000 Million People: Health Care Today in China and Russia (with

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) Socialist Medical Association 1977

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Obituary

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Chicago DSA Audio Archive 1972
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