Biography
David A. Levison is the pathologist son of the Church of Scotland minister L. David Levison (who appears separately in general biographical reference works). He served as Professor of Pathology at Dundee—including a period as Dean of Medicine—and as a principal architect of the late Hodder Arnold editions of Muir's Textbook of Pathology (14th edition, 2008, with Reid, Burt, Harrison and Fleming). He published on applied pathology teaching, histopathology quality assurance, and tissue-bank ethics; he chaired the Tayside Tissue Bank committee and served on regional research-ethics panels, helping keep Muir's anchored as a clinically grounded single-volume text for the MRCPath era.
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
Senior editor, modern Hodder Arnold / CRC editions
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…