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Philip D'Arcy Hart Philip Montagu D'Arcy Hart, CBE (25 June 1900 – 30 July 2006) was a seminal British medical researcher and pioneer in tuberculosis treatment. Personal life Philip D'Arcy Hart was the grandson of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. He was ...

, Martin Roff,

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and

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. Most of them were also members of the

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which was affiliated to the Labour Party. They discussed the relationship between science and social responsibility and the significance of social class. They advocated salaried and group practice for primary care. Archives of the society are preserved in the

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and the Communist Party of Great Britain archive in the Manchester's

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. There is a separate Sigerist Circle of medical historians based in

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