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History of Cervical Cancer and the Role of the Human Papillomavirus, 1960-2000
(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 ...
Innovation in Pain Management
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2004-12-30)
Unrelieved pain caused by cancer is experienced by more than 5 million people worldwide, and over the past 50 years has been accepted as unnecessary by both clinicians and politicians. Major innovations in the understanding ...
Childhood asthma and beyond
(Wellcome Trust, 2001)
Consists of the edited transcripts of Witness Seminars organized by the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group and held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Clinical Research in Britain 1950-1980
(Wellcome Trust, 2000)
What is clinical research? The growth of clinical research in the UK since the Second World War is examined, including the 1953 Cohen Report and the subsequent creation of the Medical Research Council’s Clinical Research ...
Post Penicillin Antibiotics: From acceptance to resistance?
(Wellcome Trust, 2000)
The introduction of penicillin during the Second World War led to a revolution in both drug development and therapeutics. Several important themes emerged during the course of the meeting – the discovery of the antimicrobial ...
Medical Ethics Education in Britain, 1963-1993
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2007-11-22)
Changing attitudes toward human experimentation along with other controversial moral issues emerged after the Second World War and, in 1963, led to the London Medical Group, organized by Ted Shotter, with similar Medical ...
Population-based Research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2002)
Population-based research in south Wales was initially to investigate occupational lung disease in miners. Archie Cochrane, the renowned epidemiologist, and his clinical and environmental studies group at the Pneumoconiosis ...
History of Dialysis in the UK: c.1950-1980
(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 ...