ABSTRACT
Healthcare, for Widgery, was a metaphor for much that was wrong in the world. As was quoted at the outset, 'My own life, as much as my politics, tells me that the levels of compassion with which a society treats its sick and crippled, its old and its feeble-minded, is the real measure of that society's level of civilisation.'68 By the mid-1980s Widgery's main focus was medicine. As we touched on earlier, this was partly due to the activi ties he had previously associated himself with, like Oz and RAR, diminishing. Nevertheless, medical practice was still an expression of David Widgery's political ideology and this chapter aims to look at how the two related.
