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The Development of Sports Medicine in Twentieth-century Britain
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009-05)
Sports medicine has grown in importance and visibility in recent years, yet as a discipline it struggled to gain broad recognition within the medical profession from c.1952 until specialty status was granted in 2005. It ...
Development of Physics Applied to Medicine in the UK, 1945–90
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2006-11-19)
Organized with the assistance of Professor John Clifton (UCL) and chaired by Professor Peter Williams (Manchester), this seminar examined the early developments of medical physics in the UK between 1945 and 1990. Participants ...
Genetic Testing
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003-12-08)
Remarkable strides were made in the twentieth century in understanding the basis of heredity and in deciphering how the genes, the units of heredity, function. Chaired by Professor Marcus Pembrey, and attended by a group ...
Environmental Toxicology: The legacy of Silent Spring
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2004-07-15)
The period immediately following the Second World War brought great hopes of continuing benefits from widespread use of organo-chlorine and organophosphorus insecticides and other pesticides whilst the health risks of ...
Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 outbreak and its aftermath
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003-12-08)
In 1967–68 Britain experienced the worst foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic of the twentieth century. Attributed to pig swill containing infected Argentine lamb, 2,228 outbreaks were recorded during a nine-month period, ...
The MRC Applied Psychology Unit
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003-06-10)
This transcript considers the origins and impact of the MRC Applied Psychology Unit’s work from 1944 to 1998. Psychologists, clinicians, and industrial, ergonomic and occupational psychologists discuss the evolution of ...
Leukemia
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003)
This transcript examines some of the major discoveries and developments in the management of leukaemia over the past 30 years, such as the discovery of the alkylating agents (chlorambucil and busulphan) at London’s Chester ...
Public Health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and rise?
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2006-03-15)
The 1974 reorganization of the National Health Service was largely seen as a disaster for the public health profession. The post of Medical Officer of Health, with its links to local government, was replaced by the community ...
The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders
(Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, 2005-07-29)
The recent history of research on platelets and its applications in medicine started with the introduction of ex vivo methods for studying platelet behaviour. The Witness Seminar held on 25 November 2003, chaired by Professor ...
Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Disease in the UK, 1950–2000.
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2006-05-15)
Cholesterol began to be accepted after the Second World War as a significant cause of atherosclerosis and associated conditions such as coronary heart disease (CHD). This Witness Seminar, chaired by Professor Michael Oliver, ...