Yet another name poll, to hopefully help this evolving debate along.
My preference is Ramsay's Disease, until we are sure of the primary underlying pathology.
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An eponymous name has one huge advantage in that we don't have to keep changing it as the knowledge about the disease improves, and spend our lives arguing about whether it is technically accurate.
I have no idea what the late Mr Ramsay would have thought. He may well have been horrified at having it named after him.
If we are going to push for an eponymous name then I do think we should first check with the person, or their surviving family, that it is okay with them to use their name in this manner. If they object, then it is not an option for us, far as I am concerned.
I have deliberately not included other eponymous options, like Mirza or Cheney-Bell, because there are literally dozens of those possibilities, and the most commonly mentioned one seems to be Ramsay. But this could be the subject of a separate poll, just on eponymous names.
One option for an eponymous name is to name it after a place, not a person. For example, Royal Free Disease, after the hospital where Ramsay did his work.
My preference is Ramsay's Disease, until we are sure of the primary underlying pathology.
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An eponymous name has one huge advantage in that we don't have to keep changing it as the knowledge about the disease improves, and spend our lives arguing about whether it is technically accurate.
I have no idea what the late Mr Ramsay would have thought. He may well have been horrified at having it named after him.
If we are going to push for an eponymous name then I do think we should first check with the person, or their surviving family, that it is okay with them to use their name in this manner. If they object, then it is not an option for us, far as I am concerned.
I have deliberately not included other eponymous options, like Mirza or Cheney-Bell, because there are literally dozens of those possibilities, and the most commonly mentioned one seems to be Ramsay. But this could be the subject of a separate poll, just on eponymous names.
One option for an eponymous name is to name it after a place, not a person. For example, Royal Free Disease, after the hospital where Ramsay did his work.