Browsing Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Series by Issue Date

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    • The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention 

      Zallen, DT; Christie, DA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2004-12)
      Consists of the edited transcripts of Witness SeThe prevention of rhesus disease of the newborn is a stunning medical success story. This disease afflicted thousands of newborns each year, causing serious health problems, ...

    • Innovation in Pain Management 

      Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (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 ...

    • The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders 

      Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, 2005-07-29)
      The recent history of research on platelets and its applications in medicine started with the introduction of ex vivo methods for studying platelet behaviour. The Witness Seminar held on 25 November 2003, chaired by Professor ...

    • Short-Course Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis 

      Christie, DA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2005-07-30)
      The introduction in 1952 of isoniazid established the standard treatment of streptomycin, isoniazid and either thiacetazone or para-aminosalicylic acid for pulmonary tuberculosis. To achieve good results, patients had to ...

    • Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and mortality after Preterm Birth 

      REYNOLDS, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2005-12-20)
      In 1959 the New Zealand obstetrician Graham (Mont) Liggins began investigating mechanisms that triggered premature labour. Supported by the Wellcome Trust, he examined the effects of hormones on labour in sheep, and ...

    • Public Health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and rise? 

      Berridge, V; Christie, DA; Tansey, EM (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 ...

    • Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Disease in the UK, 1950–2000. 

      REYNOLDS, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2006-05-15)
      Cholesterol began to be accepted after the Second World War as a significant cause of atherosclerosis and associated conditions such as coronary heart disease (CHD). This Witness Seminar, chaired by Professor Michael Oliver, ...

    • Development of Physics Applied to Medicine in the UK, 1945–90 

      Christie, DA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2006-11-19)
      Organized with the assistance of Professor John Clifton (UCL) and chaired by Professor Peter Williams (Manchester), this seminar examined the early developments of medical physics in the UK between 1945 and 1990. Participants ...

    • Early Development of Total Hip Replacement 

      Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2007-03)
      Total hip replacement effectively began in the UK in 1938 and has led to widely used, commercially successful, mass-produced devices that relieve pain for an ever increasing period. The Witness Seminar, chaired by Mr Alan ...

    • The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer 

      Christie, DA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2007-10)
      Proposed by Dr Mark Walport (Wellcome Trust) this Seminar examined the discovery, use and impact of platinum salts as chemotherapy agents for cancer. Organized with the assistance of Professor Paul Andrews (St George's ...

    • Medical Ethics Education in Britain, 1963-1993 

      Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (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 ...

    • Superbugs and Superdrugs: A history of MRSA 

      Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008-05)
      Because of its unique adaptability and resistance to many antibacterial drugs and antiseptics, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a nosocomial menace of the present day. It has invaded medical and surgical ...

    • Clinical Pharmacology in the UK, c.1950-2000: Industry and Regulation 

      Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008-12)
      Clinical pharmacology in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s was an exciting profession. Many important new drugs were developed and brought to market and a more systematic knowledge of drug effects in humans was needed, as well ...

    • Clinical Pharmacology in the UK, c.1950-2000: Influences and Institutions 

      Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008-12-01)
      The history of clinical pharmacology in the UK over the last half of the twentieth century is largely untold. Many important new drugs were developed and brought to market in the 1950s and 1960s ensuring the need for more ...

    • The Resurgence of Breastfeeding, 1975-2000 

      Crowther, SM; Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine at UCL, 2009-03-20)
      As breast-milk substitutes became iAs breast-milk substitutes became increasingly sophisticated and heavily marketed in the mid-twentieth century, bottle-feeding became regarded worldwide as safe, convenient, normal and ...

    • 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 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...