Marion Macleod

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Marion Macleod
Born
Newcastle upon Tyne
Died2017 (aged 86)
NationalityBritish
Known forMicrobiology and medical sociology

Dr. Marion Macleod (died 2017) was a British microbiologist and medical sociologist. [1]

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Early life

Marion Macleod (nee Fairman) was born in Newcastle upon Tyne to Roland and Rhoda Fairman (nee Finch), a coach painter and cleaner respectively. At the start of the second world war, she was evacuated to Berwick-upon-Tweed and then Shap in Cumberland. She returned to Newcastle and at age 16 left school and started working as a laboratory technician in a bacteriology lab in Newcastle University. She finished her school in evening classes and won a scholarship to attend university. [1]

Education and career

After graduation from Durham University with a double first degree in botany and bacteriology in 1952, she began a job as a post assistant lecturer at Glasgow University and completed her PhD in 1955. [1]

In 1956 Macleod studied bacterial cytology at Harvard Medical School as a Harkness Fellow, and then from 1957 to 1958 she studied virology at the California Institute of Technology. [1] [2] While in the US, she met Norman Macleod, another Harkness Fellow, and in 1959 they married. They had three children. Following a break in her career to raise children, she returned as a part-time lecturer at Napier College, Edinburgh.

In the 1983 general election she stood as the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in Edinburgh Central, where she came third. [1] Macleod completed a second PhD on medical sociology in 1986 from Edinburgh University, and then worked as a lecturer at Queen Margaret College in medical sociology. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Macleod, Fiona (2017-07-27). "Marion Macleod obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  2. 1 2 "Norman Macleod (1926–2017)". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2021-02-03.