Julian Tudor Hart
b 1927, general practitioner and epidemiologist, south Wales
Penmaen, Swansea, 10/07/95
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Penmaen, Swansea, 10/07/95 | |
Julian Tudor Hart could easily have been yet another champagne Socialist. His middle class doctor parents were engaged in the Spanish Civil War, and he qualified from the ivory towers of Cambridge and St George's Hospital. Instead, however, he settled in Glyncorrwg, a mining village in south Wales, where he could practise his strong left wing principles. Concentrating on studying how his patients' lifestyles (diet, smoking, and exercise) caused their illnesses, he then worked with them to make their lives healthier, thereby achieving far more than any politician would have done (he tried three times to become a Communist MP). |