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Public Health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and rise?
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2006-03-15)
The 1974 reorganization of the National Health Service was largely seen as a disaster for the public health profession. The post of Medical Officer of Health, with its links to local government, was replaced by the community ...
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 ...
The Development of Sports Medicine in Twentieth-century Britain
(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 ...
British Contributions to Medical Research and Education in Africa after the Second World War
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2001)
Differences in health services, research and medical education between British East and West Africa over the period to 1980, including the effects of the transition to independent states, were discussed by witnesses with ...
Origins of Neonatal Intensive Care
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2000)
Chaired by Professor Robert Boyd, this seminar reviewed the development and changes in care of the newborn in the UK over the past 50 years. Advances in techniques were described, such as mechanical ventilation, total ...
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 ...
Intestinal Absorption
(Wellcome Trust, 2000)
A record of a meeting chaired by Lord Turnberg that brought together those from laboratory research and medical practice to discuss some of the key aspects of intestinal absorption, including work on basic physiological ...
Looking at the Unborn: Historical aspects of obstetric ultrasound
(Wellcome Trust, 2000)
The obstetric ultrasound scanner had its major origins in a programme of research undertaken in Glasgow in the 1950s and 1960s, under the leadership of the obstetrician, Professor Ian Donald. Donald’s work was characterized ...
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 ...