Browsing Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Series by Title
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Genetic Testing
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Palliative Medicine in the UK c.1970-2010
(2013)Palliative medicine and the modern hospice movement developed in the UK from the late 1960s onwards. St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham, founded by Dame Cicely Saunders, opened in 1967 as the first modern hospice which ... -
Peptic Ulcer: Rise and fall
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL., 2002)In May 2000, a distinguished group of scientists and clinicians came together in a one-day meeting to discuss the recent history of peptic ulcer, and its rise and fall. Chaired by Professor Roy Pounder from the Royal Free ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
