Squeezing his research into evenings after long days delivering babies, he began by questioning the theory, held since Aristotle, that the mother's body instigated labour.
Peter Hammond, former leader of the Labour group, resigned in November after Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, overruled a decision by party councillors to join the cabinet.
This was followed by a hard-won commitment from Labour to PR for such a body, in time for the 1992 General Election.
Shipowners hope that, if they do not succeed in getting rid of the payments by negotiation, a new convention on seafarers' rights being drafted at the International Labour Organisation, a United Nations body, will put an end to the scheme.
Set up after the 1997 election, the policy forum - which meets in private - has taken over as Labour's key policy-making body.
The SNP refused to have any part in the body but the convention worked on with Labour and Liberal Democrat support.
Labour has announced plans to get rid of the body charged with protecting consumer rights and regulating the gas and electricity market.
On the whole, America's Jewry has been a liberal body, aligning itself with Israel's Labour Party rather than the Likud Party of the present prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.
Labour MP Tom Watson, a member of the culture committee, said the body was united across party lines in believing the three men should face "some form of parliamentary justice".
The reforms "should tackle weaknesses in product market regulation, labour market institutions, tax systems, and strengthen the single market, " the body said.
The BBC's political correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti said Labour had referred Ms Moran's case to a special endorsement panel - a new disciplinary body - for urgent consideration.
More than 60 Labour MPs have signed a Commons motion calling the proposed powers of the new Infrastructure Planning Commission - an independent body which would take decisions on major infrastructure - "inordinate and unprecedented".
Labour has already created an Ofsted for the health service (ie, an inspectorate for hospitals), and a body to judge which treatments best combine efficacy and efficiency (ie, to help decide on rationing).
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