Person

Mackay, Ian Reay (1922 - 2020)

Born
22 March 1922
Died
24 March 2020
Occupation
Medical scientist

Summary

Ian Mackay was Head of the Clinical Research Unit of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the Royal Melbourne Hospital 1963-1987 and Assistant Physician 1955-1963.

Published resources

Books

  • Anderson, Warwick and Mackay, Ian R., Intolerant bodies: a short history of autoimmunity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), 241 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Anderson, Warwick and Hunter, Cecily, ''Wars have an overflow on everything': Interview with Ian R, MacKay and Patricia MacKay', Health and History, 15 (1) (2013), 104-17. Details
  • Anderson, Warwick and Mackay, Ian R., 'Fashioning the Immunological Self: the Biological Individuality of F. Macfarlane Burnet', Journal of the History of Biology, 47 (1) (2014), 147-75. Details
  • Anon, 'Ian Reay Mackay AM FAA FRACP FRCP FRCPA 22 March 1922 to24 March 2020', Australian Academy of Science newsletter, 136 (2020), 14. https://www.science.org.au/academy-newsletter/march-2020-136. Details
  • Mackay, I. R., 'The 'Burnet Era' of Immunology: Origins and Influence', Immunology and Cell Biology, 69 (5) (1991), 301-305. Details
  • Mackay, I. R., 'Burnet Oration: Auto-immunity, Paradigms of Burnet and Complexities of Today', Immunology and Cell Biology, 70 (1992), 159-171. Details
  • Roberts-Thomson, Peter J.; Jackson, Michael W.; and Gordon, Thomas P., 'A Seminal Monograph: Mackay and Burnet's Autoimmune Diseases', Medical Journal of Australia, 196 (1) (2012), 74-6. Details

Resources

See also

  • Crawford, Anne, Let there be light: 100 years of discovery at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Carlton, Vic.: Miegunyah Press, 2016), 149 pp. Details

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