James Hill "Hamish" Barber (28 May 1933 – 26 August 2007) was a

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and medical academic. He was the first professor of

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at the

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and wrote the first comprehensive textbook in this field.

Early life

Barber was born on 28 May 1933 in Dunfermline, Scotland.

Medical career

Barber qualified from the

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in 1957. He gained a MD in 1966 with a thesis entitled ''A Study of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in General Practice''. In 1972 he was appointed as senior lecturer in the organisation of medical care at the University of Glasgow. In 1974 he became the first professor of General Practice at the University. Computer-assisted learning was introduced during his tenure. Together with Andrew Boddy, he wrote ''The Textbook of General Practice Medicine'' which was published in 1975. At just over 350 pages it was the first comprehensive textbook of this specialty. He retired in 1993.

Later life and death

He made model boats and wrote a book on the topic that was published in 2005: ''Scottish fishing vessels of the nineteenth century, a guide to building scale model boats''. After a long illness, he died on 26 August 2007.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barber, Hamish 1933 births 2007 deaths 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish general practitioners Fellows of the Royal College of General Practitioners Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Glasgow 20th-century surgeons