London Medical Group Explained

The London Medical Group (LMG) was a forum for the discussion of medical ethics issues set up by the Rev Edward Shotter in 1963.^[1] It was a forerunner of the Society for the Study of Medical Ethics (SSME), itself a forerunner of the Institute of Medical Ethics (IME). Dr (later Dame) Cicely Saunders gave one of the first lectures in the 1963/64 session on the subject of pain.^[2] The LMG published a series of papers under the title Documentation in Medical Ethics, considered to be the forerunner of the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Notes and References

1. Whong-Barr, Michael. “Clinical Ethics Teaching in Britain: a History of the London Medical Group.” New Review of Bioethics 1, no. 1 (November 2003): 73–84.
2. Reynolds, L.A., and E.M. Tansey, eds. Medical Ethics Education in Britain, 1963-1993. London: UK: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2007. Available from: Web site: UCL Discovery - Medical ethics education in Britain, 1963-1993 . 2012-07-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140325191214/http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/14885/ . 2014-03-25 .