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Palliative Medicine in the UK c.1970-2010
(2013)
Palliative medicine and the modern hospice movement developed in the UK from the late 1960s onwards. St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham, founded by Dame Cicely Saunders, opened in 1967 as the first modern hospice which ...
History of British Intensive Care, c. 1950–c. 2000
(Queen Mary, University of London, 2011-09-28)
Intensive care developed in the UK as a medical specialty as the result of some extraordinary circumstances and the involvement of some extraordinary people. In 1952, the polio epidemic in Copenhagen demonstrated that ...
History of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles
(Queen Mary, University of London, 2011-10-01)
A National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL) was proposed in the mid-1980s. This was to provide data to help predict and prevent the transmission and spread of HIV, in response to the critical need for ...
History of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children , C 1980-2000
(Queen Mary, University of London, 2012-05)
The Avon Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) arose from a proposal in the mid-1980s to design a cohort study in Europe which concentrated on the health of children. The UK-side of this was developed in the ...
History of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children , c.1980-2000
(Queen Mary, University of London, 2012-05)
The Avon Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) arose from a proposal in the mid-1980s to design a cohort study in Europe which concentrated on the health of children. The UK-side of this was developed in the ...
Clinical Genetics in Britain: Origins and development
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2010-06-26)
Clinical genetics has become a major medical specialty in Britain since its beginnings with Lionel Penrose’s work on mental handicap and phenylketonuria (PKU) and John Fraser Robert’s first genetic clinic in 1946. Subsequent ...
The Medicalization of Cannabis
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, 2010-06-21)
Cannabis has been considered as both an illicit drug and a medicine throughout its history. Introduced to the UK as a medicine in the nineteenth century, its medical utility was limited and it was not until tetrahydrocannabinol ...
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
(Queen Mary, University of London, 2012-05-28)
The World Health Organization (WHO)’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the first global convention on public health. Comprehensive tobacco control had been the subject of 20 resolutions – consensus statements ...