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Clinical Genetics in Britain: Origins and development

Harper, PS; Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (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

Crowther, SM; Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (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 ...

History of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles

Overy, C; Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (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 ...

Early Heart Transplant Surgery in the UK

Tansey, EM; Reynolds, LA (Wellcome Trust, 1999)

Some of the key players in the early heart transplant operations in the UK gathered to consider the events of 1968, when the first transplants took place and their immediate and long-term implications. Not only were surgical ...

History of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children , C 1980-2000

Overy, C; Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (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

Overy, C; Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Queen Mary, University of London, 2012-05)

Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Volume 2

Tansey, EM; Christie, DA; Reynolds, LA (Wellcome Trust, 1998-09)

Second volume of four Witness Seminar transcripts of meetings held between 1996 and 1997: ‘Making the Human Body Transparent: The Impact of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging’ (Tansey E M, Christie ...

History of Cervical Cancer and the Role of the Human Papillomavirus, 1960-2000

Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009-12)

The history, largely untold, of the development of cervical cytology, of effective screening and its ultimate success in reducing cervical cancer incidence and mortality, and the viral cause of cervical cancer, took place ...

The Development of Sports Medicine in Twentieth-century Britain

Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (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 ...

History of Dialysis in the UK: c.1950-1980

Crowther, SM; Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009-12)

Dialysis, the first technological substitution for organ function, is significant not only for the numbers of patients who have benefited. It contributed to the emergence of the field of medical ethics and the development ...