Irvine Loudon
b 1924, general practitioner, Wantage
Wantage, Oxon, 17/09/96
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Letter: A revival of home births would have to be led by community midwives
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Wantage, Oxon, 17/09/96 | |
Not many doctors have a distinguished first career and then achieve equal success in another. Irvine Loudon, a family doctor in Oxfordshire, did much to raise standards in general practice, particularly through the Royal College of General Practitioners, and then retired early in his 50s to take up an academic post in medical history. His subsequent books on the evolution of the general practitioner and death in childbirth have been acclaimed world wide, and he is currently editing an illustrated history of medicine and another volume on general practice. Links to the BMJ archive Letter: A revival of home births would have to be led by community midwives |