Wellcome Witnesses Volumes

The volumes in this series contain transcripts of the Witness Seminars at which significant figures in twentieth-century medicine are invited to discuss specific discoveries or events in recent medical history. Every volume is freely available to download. Hard copies of volumes 21–42 may also be purchased from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com or from good booksellers quoting the ISBN for £6/$10 each plus postage.

All papers and records collected during the organization of the meetings and editing of the transcripts are deposited in Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library, London, in collection GC/253.

Volumes

  1. Technology Transfer in Britain: The Case of Monoclonal Antibodies; Self and Non-Self: A History of Autoimmunity; Endogenous Opiates; The Committee on Safety of Drugs
  2. Making the Human Body Transparent: The Impact of NMR and MRI; Research in General Practice; Drugs in Psychiatric Practice; The MRC Common Cold Unit
  3. Early heart transplant surgery in the UK
  4. Haemophilia: Recent history of clinical management
  5. Looking at the Unborn: Historical aspects of obstetric ultrasound
  6. Post Penicillin Antibiotics: From acceptance to resistance?
  7. Clinical Research in Britain, 1950-1980
  8. Intestinal Absorption
  9. Origins of Neonatal Intensive Care
  10. British Contributions to Medical Research and Education in Africa after the Second World War
  11. Childhood Asthma and Beyond
  12. Maternal Care
  13. Population-based Research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit
  14. Peptic Ulcer: Rise and Fall
  15. Leukaemia
  16. The MRC Applied Psychology Unit
  17. Genetic Testing
  18. Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 outbreak and its aftermath
  19. Environmental Toxicology: The legacy of Silent Spring
  20. Cystic Fibrosis
  21. Innovation in Pain Management
  22. The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention
  23. The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders
  24. Short-course Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis
  25. Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality after Preterm Birth
  26. Public Health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and Rise?
  27. Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Disease in the UK, 1950-2000
  28. Development of Physics Applied to Medicine in the UK, 1945-1990
  29. Early Development of Total Hip Replacement
  30. The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer
  31. Medical Ethics Education in Britain, 1963-1993
  32. Superbugs and Superdrugs: A History of MRSA
  33. Clinical Pharmacology in the UK, c. 1950-2000: Influences and institutions
  34. Clinical Pharmacology in the UK, c. 1950-2000: Industry and Regulation
  35. The Resurgence of Breastfeeding, 1975-2000
  36. The Development of Sports Medicine in Twentieth-century Britain
  37. History of Dialysis in the UK: c. 1950-1980
  38. History of Cervical Cancer and the Role of the Human Papillomavirus, 1960-2000
  39. Clinical Genetics in Britain: Origins and development
  40. The Medicalization of Cannabis
  41. History of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles
  42. History of British Intensive Care, c. 1950-c. 2000
  43. WHO Framework Convention On Tobacco Control
  44. History of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), c.1980-2000
  45. Palliative Medicine in the UK c.1970-2010
  46. Clinical Cancer Genetics: Polyposis and Familial Colorectal Cancer c.1975-c.2010
  47. Drugs Affecting 5-HT Systems
  48. Clinical Molecular Genetics in the UK c.1975–c.2000
  49. Migraine: Diagnosis, Treatment and Understanding c.1960–2010
  50. Monoclonal Antibodies to Migraine: Witnesses to Modern Biomedicine, an A–Z
  51. The Recent History of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
  52. The Development of Narrative Practices in Medicine c.1960–c.2000
  53. The Development of Brain Banks in the UK c.1970–c.2010
  54. Human Gene Mapping Workshops c.1973-c.1991
  55. A History of Bovine TB c.1965–c.2000
  56. The Development of Waste Management in the UK c.1960–c.2000
  57. Medical Genetics: Development of Ethical Dimensions in Clinical Practice and Research
  58. Air Pollution Research in Britain c.1955–c.2000
  59. Technology, Techniques, and Technicians at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) c.1960-c.2000
  60. The Recent History of Tumour Necrosis Factor (TNF)
  61. Historical Perspectives on Rural Medicine
  62. The Therapeutic Implications of Muscular Dystrophy Genomics
  63. Makers of Modern Biomedicine: A Register