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author, involved with various international health organizations. Sisvan William Aram Gunn was born on February 10, 1926, in

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, Canada. He completed his medical studies in

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, Gunn was a lecturer in History of Medicine and Science at the

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. Later, Scientific director vice president of the European Center for

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; founder and president of the Medical Society of the World Health Organization and president of the board of the ''International Association for Humanitarian Medicine'' (IAHM). Gunn authored and co-authored over 300 professional publications and 20 mono-graphs. Gunn was awarded the honorary doctorate of Palermo University. Gunn died on November 1, 2022, at the age of 96.

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