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David Widgery (27 April 1947 – 26 October 1992) was a British Trotskyist writer, journalist, polemicist, physician, and activist.〔"Widgery, David John Turner", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''〕〔("David Widgery". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 9 March 2009. )〕 ==Biography== Widgery was born in Barnet and grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He contracted polio as a child and was expelled from sixth form for publishing a magazine.〔"Widgery, David John Turner", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''〕 In 1965, Widgery met Allen Ginsberg, then visited Watts, where he encountered the civil rights movement, followed by Cuba. On return to Britain, he studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School before writing for the ''New Statesman'' and ''Oz'' magazines, becoming co-editor of ''Oz'' during 1971.〔 Widgery joined the International Socialists in 1967, remaining in the group as it became the Socialist Workers Party. In 1972 he began working at Bethnal Green Hospital, and later in the decade he published his first book, ''The Left in Britain, 1956–68''.〔 Widgery contributed to ''Ink'', ''Time Out'' and ''City Limits'', also writing for ''New Statesman'', ''Socialist Review'', ''International Socialism'' and ''New Society''.〔"David Widgery". ''National Portrait Gallery''. Retrieved 9 March 2009. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp68805〕 He also presented a paper at the ninth symposium of the National Deviancy Conference in Sheffield (7–8 January 1972) on "The Politics of the Underground".〔Taylor, L. & Taylor, I. (eds) (1972), ''Politics and Deviance'', Harmondsworth: Penguin, p. 213.〕 His books include ''The Chatto Book of Dissent'' (1991), an anthology of dissident writings co-edited with Michael Rosen, ''Some Lives!: A GP's East End'' (1991), the story of his experience as a doctor in London's East End, ''The National Health: A Radical Perspective'', and ''Beating Time'' (1986), an account of the Rock Against Racism movement of the late 1970s. When Widgery died, aged 45, excess alcohol, barbiturates and pethidine were found in his bloodstream, but it is not known whether this was an accidental or intentional overdose.〔James Le Fanu, "Confronting an Ill Society", ''J R Soc Med.'', 2005 July; 98(7): 332–333.〕 One obituary described Widgery as "a radical humanist intellectual on permanent loan to revolutionary socialism."〔(Bob Light, "The Human Face of Revolution", ''Socialist Review'', November 1992. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Widgery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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