Correspondence. General and Surnames, 'Andrew' to 'Mansfield'

  • The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
Date:
1996-1998
Reference:
GC/253/A/2/1/1
Part of:
Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

File consists of papers and general correspondence, plus correspondence with people who have surnames from Andrew to Mansfield, related to the seminar on, "Making the Human Body Transparent: The Impact of N.M.R. and M.R.I.", which was held at the Wellcome Institute on 2 July 1996. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published with three other seminars in Volume 2 of the Witness Seminar series, E.M. Tansey, D.A. Christie, L.A. Reynolds (editors), Making the Human Body Transparent: The Impact of N.M.R. and M.R.I.; Research in General Practice; Drugs in Psychiatric Practice; The M.R.C. Common Cold Unit, (London: Wellcome Trust, 1998).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the organiser ( Dr Tilli Tansey), editors of the published transcript (Dr D.A. Christie and Dr Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees and an information sheet on the meeting.

Handwritten notes and copies of e-mails regarding the organisation of the meeting and notes between the organisers and editors regarding the transcript and accommodating people's comments.

Detailed information for the seminar, commentary on the transcripts and feedback on the meeting from participants. In addition to comments on the transcript provided by participants; Professor John Mallard's comments on the importance of the seminar and his review of the book, Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press).

Correspondence with those not listed as participants including; John Fleming.

Publication/Creation

1996-1998

Physical description

1 file

Arrangement

The correspondence comes after the general information and is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

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  • 809