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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 ...