Browsing Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine Series by Author "Overy C"

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    • Air Pollution Research in Britain c.1955–c.2000 

      Jones EM; Overy C; Tansey EM (2016)
      A Witness Seminar on the history of air pollution research in the UK, with discussion on investigations by the MRC Air Pollution Unit at Barts (1955–1978) into impacts on respiratory health, and more recent research into ...

    • The Development of Brain Banks in the UK c.1970–c.2010 

      Overy C; Tansey EM (2015)
      This Witness Seminar on the development of brain banks in the UK, chaired by Professor Hugh Perry, included several neuropathologists, neuroscientists, and representatives of individual brain banks and the MRC’s UK Brain ...

    • Drugs Affecting 5-HT Systems 

      Overy C; Tansey EM (2013)
      This full-day Witness Seminar, chaired by Professor Rod Flower, was attended by pharmacologists from industry, academe and clinicians, some of whose research into 5-HT (serotonin) dated from the 1950s and all of whom have ...

    • Historical Perspectives on Rural Medicine 

      Overy C; Tansey EM (2017)
      Introduced by Professor Geoffrey Hudson, this volume comprises edited transcripts of two Witness Seminars held in 2010 and 2015 on the history and development of rural medicine. Participants in London and others world-wide ...

    • A History of Bovine TB c.1965–c.2000 

      Overy C; Tansey EM (2015)
      A Witness Seminar looking at the history of bovine TB from the mid-1960s to c.2000, chaired by Professor Wyn Grant and introduced by Professor Keir Waddington, with contributions from veterinary scientists, biologists, ...

    • Makers of Modern Biomedicine: A Register 

      Overy C; Wilkinson A; Tansey EM (2017)
      An illustrated register of the contributors to the Witness Seminars.

    • Migraine: Diagnosis, Treatment and Understanding c.1960–2010 

      Overy C; Tansey EM (2014)
      There are around eight million migraine sufferers in the UK today. This Witness Seminar looked at the last 50 years of research into the diagnosis and treatment of the condition and the changing attitudes of the medical ...

    • The Recent History of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) 

      Overy C; Tansey EM (2014)
      The variation of mood with the seasons has been acknowledged for a long time. It was in 1984 that the term Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) was first used in a paper by Norman Rosenthal and colleagues at the National ...

    • Technology, Techniques, and Technicians at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) c.1960-c.2000 

      Overy C; Tansey EM (2016)
      With an introduction by Dr Jim Smith, the last Director of the NIMR at Mill Hill, this Witness Seminar looks at the work of the technicians who supported the scientific research at the Institute in the latter half of the ...

    • The Therapeutic Implications of Muscular Dystrophy Genomics 

      Zarros A; Overy C; Mikami K; Sturdy S; Tansey EM (2017)
      With an introduction by Professor Jan Witkowski, this Witness Seminar transcript presents an account of the therapeutic implications of muscular dystrophy genomics. The participants provide insights into the clinical and ...