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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:498-499
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Reprints and Reflections

Commentary: Minimum incomes for healthy living: then, now—and tomorrow?

JN Morris

Public and Environmental Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. E-mail: jerry.morris@lshtm.ac.uk

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I have not seen John Pemberton’s article,1 published in the summer of 1934, before. Qualifying as a doctor from University College Hospital (UCH) in the spring of that year, and typically broke, I departed straightaway to a general practice in the country. There within 3 days, and solo, I was delivering the reluctant wife of the local policeman ... Anyhow, I returned safely to UCH in the autumn of that year as House Physician (Resident) to Thomas Lewis, the great Heart man, whose clinical clerk I had previously been in a life-changing experience for close on a year. Soon, some of us, residents and students, started a Socialist Study Group on . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   A plea for rationality—pro guesswork
 

   —and to public health/social medicine
 

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