The London Medical Group (LMG) was a forum for the discussion of medical ethics issues set up by the Rev

Edward Shotter Edward Frank Shotter (29 June 1933 – 3 July 2019) was an Anglican priest. Shotter was educated at Humberstone Foundation School and Durham University and ordained in 1961. He began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Peter's Plymouth, a ...

in 1963. It was a forerunner of the Society for the Study of Medical Ethics (SSME), itself a forerunner of the Institute of Medical Ethics (IME). Dr (later Dame)

Cicely Saunders Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the i ...

gave one of the first lectures in the 1963/64 session on the subject of pain.Reynolds, L.A., and E.M. Tansey, eds. Medical Ethics Education in Britain, 1963-1993. London: UK: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2007. Available from: The LMG published a series of papers under the title Documentation in Medical Ethics, considered to be the forerunner of the

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