In Memoriam: Mervyn Susser, MB, BCh, DPH

Zena Stein, Mervyn Susser and epidemiology: observation, causation and action.

highlight the contributions of two pioneering self-taught epidemiologists, Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser. Their joint paper ‘Civilization and Peptic Ulcer‘, originally published in the Lancet in 1962, appears as one of our series of reprints of important epidemiological papers, along with several commentaries. These include a reflection, 40 years on, by the original authors. A companion series o...

Two lives, three legs, one journey: a retrospective appreciation of Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser.

‘The proponents of a genetic cause of the unequal distribution of intelligence in the social classes have long argued their case with the proponents of the environmental cause ... But whatever effects innate intelligence may have on the social mobility of individuals, current theories in genetics cannot by themselves account satisfactorily for the observed class distribution of low intelligence.’

Desmond Mervyn Germans

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Sir Ivan Magill KCVO, DSc, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCS, FFARCS (Hon), FFARCSI (Hon), DA, (1888-1986)

Ivan Whiteside Magill was born in Northern Ireland, and graduated from Queen’s University Belfast Medical School just before the Great War. In his lifetime anaesthetics developed from an adjunct of surgery to a recognised medical speciality. His personal contributions included greatly improving the apparatus and specific techniques, and most prominently, his endeavour to raise the status of the...