1. Principles of Definition in Medicine with Special Reference to Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema;Scadding;The Lancet,1959
2. Though predominantly attended by Americans, there was a European presence through specialists from Northern Ireland and Czechoslovakia. Abraham B. Bergman, J. Bruce Beckwith and C. George Ray, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Causes of Sudden Death in Infants (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1970).
3. Abraham B. Bergman, The ‘Discovery’ of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Lessons in the Practice of Political Medicine (New York: Praeger, 1986), 8. Bergman was Director of out-patient services at the Children's Orthopedic Hospital and Medical Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle. Together with his colleague Bruce Beckwith, a pathologist, he co-chaired the 1969 meeting on Causes of Sudden Death in Infants held at the University of Washington.
4. Ibid., 9.
5. From 1978, ICD9 [The International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision] included the category 798—Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Previously cases had been included under category 795: Sudden Death (Cause Unknown). For a summary of this see Sylvia R. Limerick, ‘Sudden Infant Death in Historical Perspective’, Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1992, 45 (Supplement), 3–6.