Biography
John Russell Anderson was Muir's successor in the Glasgow chair: he modernised immunopathology teaching while stewarding Muir's Textbook of Pathology through the editions that bridged Edward Arnold and Williams & Wilkins (including the 1985 Arnold imprint and the 1988 twelfth edition). Elected FRSE and appointed CBE, he is remembered for sustaining the single-volume British pathology textbook tradition that Muir and Cappell had begun.
Published writings & editorial work
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Edited or co-edited
- Muir's Textbook of Pathology
The foundational British pathology text, 1924 to the present day
First published 1924 · 14th edition (under Hodder Arnold) · Edward Arnold / Hodder Arnold
Co-editor with D. F. Cappell; principal editor for later numbered editions through the 1980s
A single-volume textbook of pathology that binds the gross and microscopic changes of disease to their underlying biological mechanisms. First written as a solo work by Sir Robert Muir in 1924 and continuously revised ever since — first by Muir, then by a succession of British…