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Himsworth, Sir Harold Percival

University College Hospital: wartime reforms to medical education

'Speeches by the Rt. Hon. Winston S Churchill, Prime Minister and the Rt. Hon. Lord Moran, President of the College' to the Royal College of Physicians in London, reprinted in The Lancet , March 11, 1944.

'The Foundations of Academic Freedom' by Michael Polanyi. Printed in The Lancet on May 3 1947.

'General Education in Preparation for Medicine' by Alan Gregg, M.D. reprinted from The Journal of General Education , Volume II, Number 2, January, 1943.

'The Hopkins Memorial Lecture' delieved before the Chemical Society on February 19th, 1948 by Sir Edward Mellanby. Reprinted from the Journal of the Chemical Society

'The Shattuck Lecture: The Role of the Basic Sciences in Medical Research' by Sir Charles Harington. Reprinted from the New England Journal of Medicine . 244:777-785 (May 24), 1951

'Science for its own sake' address by Sir Edward Appleton to the British Association , Liverpool Meeting, Preprint from "The Advancement of Science" , No. 38, September 1953.

'Medical Institutes', a speech by Dr. Alan Gregg at the Montreal Neurological Institute , November 20, 1953.

'An Unsolved Problem of Biology' by P B Medawar. An Inaugural Lecture delivered at University College London. Sent by the author to Himsworth.

'A scientist in and out of the civil service' by Sir Henry Tizard. The Haldane Memorial Lecture delivered at Birkbeck College, 1955.

'Values in Undergraduate Medical Education' by Robert F Loeb, Presidential Address. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Associations of American Physicians , vol. Ixviii, p.1, 1955. Sent by Robert Loeb to Himsworth.

'Leadership in Scientific Research' by Sir Charles Harington,  Sir David Russell Memorial Lecture. Printed by Oxford University Press. Sent by the author to Himsworth.

Address to the Symposium of Service Psychologists on 'The Human Aspects of Administration' by Sir Robert Scott. Attached with letter asking for comments.

'Personal responsibility and technocracy' by Sir Gordon Cox. Printed in The Pharmaceutical Journal , 1964, 193, 389-390.

'Memorandum to the Committee Regarding Criteria for Determining Levels of Federal Support of Health Research' by Dr. Joseph Platt. Publication not indicated.

'The Doctor and the Administrator' by Sir Bruce Fraser. The Winchester Address for the British Medical Association.

'Royal Commission on University Education in London'. A Government Blue Paper

'An address on Biology and Medicine' by J S Haldane from the British Medical Journal from May 21, 1927.

'An address on Biology and Medicine' by J S Haldane from the British Medical Journal from May 21, 1927.

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