Douglas Black (physician)
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Sir Douglas Andrew Kilgour Black (29 May 1913 – 13 September 2002)medical scientist who played a key role in the development of the National Health Service. He conducted research in the field of public health and was famous as the author of the Black Report. He was also known for the Black Formula, a translation of the Pignet formula to British measurements.
He was born in
MB ChB
in 1933.
He conducted research into water loss and dehydration, first at
Oxford University, and then at the University of Manchester, where he became professor of medicine in 1959.[1]
In 1974 he became the first
chief scientist at the Department of Health and Social Security of the UK government. From 1977 to 1983 he was president of the Royal College of Physicians. He also served as the president of the British Medical Association and took an uncompromising stand against the apartheid regime in South Africa
.
In the 1970s Black was asked by the
health inequality since that time, and was published by Penguin Books
as Inequalities in Health: The Black Report and the Health Divide in 1982.
Later, Black chaired the UK government investigation into childhood
.Black was created a
Knight of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem
in 1989.
Interviews
Black, Douglas; Wolstenholme, Gordon (1987). "Sir Douglas Black in interview with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme". Oxford Brookes University. )
References
- ^ a b c Richmond, Caroline (17 September 2002). "Sir Douglas Andrew Kilgour Black, (1913-2002) Obituary". The Independent. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
External links
- BMJ Obituary of Sir Douglas Black:"Sir Douglas Black: Professor of medicine whose famous report on inequality and health fell foul of the Thatcher government".
- Obituary at the Guardian 14 September 2002: "Sir Douglas Black: A giant in many fields of medical research, he played a crucial role in shaping the NHS".
- Douglas Black on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
- Portraits of Sir Douglas Andrew Kilgour Black at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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