Browsing Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Series by Title

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    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Environmental Toxicology: The legacy of Silent Spring 

      Tansey, EM; Christie, DA (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2004-07-15)
      The period immediately following the Second World War brought great hopes of continuing benefits from widespread use of organo-chlorine and organophosphorus insecticides and other pesticides whilst the health risks of ...

    • Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 outbreak and its aftermath 

      Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003-12-08)
      In 1967–68 Britain experienced the worst foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic of the twentieth century. Attributed to pig swill containing infected Argentine lamb, 2,228 outbreaks were recorded during a nine-month period, ...

    • Genetic Testing 

      TANSEY, EM; CHRISTIE, DA (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003-12-08)
      Remarkable strides were made in the twentieth century in understanding the basis of heredity and in deciphering how the genes, the units of heredity, function. Chaired by Professor Marcus Pembrey, and attended by a group ...

    • History of British Intensive Care, c. 1950–c. 2000 

      REYNOLDS, LA; TANSEY, EM (Queen Mary, University of London, 2011-09-28)
      Intensive care developed in the UK as a medical specialty as the result of some extraordinary circumstances and the involvement of some extraordinary people. In 1952, the polio epidemic in Copenhagen demonstrated that ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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)
      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 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Intestinal Absorption 

      Christie, DA; Tansey, EM (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 ...

    • Leukemia 

      Christie, DA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003)
      This transcript examines some of the major discoveries and developments in the management of leukaemia over the past 30 years, such as the discovery of the alkylating agents (chlorambucil and busulphan) at London’s Chester ...

    • Looking at the Unborn: Historical aspects of obstetric ultrasound 

      Tansey, EM; Christie, DA (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 ...

    • Maternal Care 

      Christie, DA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2001)
      In June 2000 a distinguished group of obstetricians, midwives, general practitioners, and medical statisticians came together to discuss maternal care. Chaired by Professor James Drife from Leeds, discussion ranged over ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • The MRC Applied Psychology Unit 

      Reynolds, LA; Tansey, EM (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003-06-10)
      This transcript considers the origins and impact of the MRC Applied Psychology Unit’s work from 1944 to 1998. Psychologists, clinicians, and industrial, ergonomic and occupational psychologists discuss the evolution of ...

    • Origins of Neonatal Intensive Care 

      Christie, DA; Tansey, EM (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 ...