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Includes correspondence between Ferguson-Smith, Dr Louis J (Skip) Elsas, Alison S Carlson and Dr Myron Genel, with an annotated copy of Ferguson-Smith's chapter for the first edition of the textbook.'Gender verification' in Oxford Textbook of Sports Medicine,edited by M Harries, C Williams, WD Stanish, L J Mitchell. Oxford University Press (1994) pp 329-337, Bibliography no. 326; subsequently 'Gender verification and the place of XY females in sport' in Oxford Textbook of Sports Medicine,2nd edition (1998), pp.355-365, Bibliography no. 395.

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Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, geneticist, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Material relating to gender verification in sport

Correspondence regarding the buccal smear examination at the 1970 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games

'The sex test in international sport' by Ferguson-Smith

Correspondence between Ferguson-Smith and Dr Elizabeth A Ferris on a proposed 	 joint article on chromosomal abnormalities and the sex test of femininity

Copies of correspondence between Prof Albert de la Chapelle, and Dr Martin Bobrow 	 regarding challenges to the buccal smear test

Correspondence concerning the buccal smear test, including copies of correspondence sent to Ferguson-Smith and comments by him thereon

Draft of document on testing for the International Ski Federation Medical Committee by Dr Michael S Turner, and related correspondence on revising the test for gender 	 testing

'Gender Verification in Sport- The Need for Change?' by Ferguson-Smith and Dr Elizabeth A Ferris, British Journal of Sports Medicine, 25 (1991), 17-20

Papers relating to the International Athletic Foundation Workshop on Approved Methods of Femininity Verification, Monte Carlo, Monaco, 10-11 November 1990

'Medical examination for health of all athletes replacing gender verification in international sports: the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) proposal,by Professor Arne Ljungqvist and Dr Joe Leigh Simpson, submitted to the Lancet

Gender verification correspondence, June-July 1991

Gender verification correspondence, September-November 1991

'Medical examination for health of all athletes replacing gender verification in international sports: the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) proposal,by Professor Arne Ljungqvist and Dr Joe Leigh Simpson, submitted to the Journal of the American Medical Association, November

Letter to Nature on 'Olympic Row over Sex Testing,' November

Gender verification correspondence, December 1991

Gender verification correspondence, January-April 1992

International Athletic Foundation Seminar on Gender Verification, London, 16 May 1992

Correspondence on the progress of PCR testing at Albertville Winter Olympic Games, May

'Gender verification in competitive sports,' review article for Sports Medicine

Reply to criticisms by Dr Bernard Dingeon in the Journal of the American Medical Association

Gender verification correspondence concerning the American Medical Association 	 resolution on gender verification

Ferguson-Smith's correspondence regarding test results from 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, October 1992-1993

Correspondence, chiefly regarding the adoption of gender verification at World University Games, February-March

Correspondence, chiefly concerning model resolutions on gender verification testing, for adoption by professional bodies, April-June

Gender verification correspondence, July-December

Correspondence regarding the petition by the "Heinonen Sixteen" on gender verification, March-April

Gender verification correspondence, May-September, including further correspondence regarding the "refined proposal from the Heinonen Sixteen" and the 	 possibility of holding a conference with the sixteen athletes to discuss gender 	 verification tests further

'Gender verification' by Michele Verroken, Head of Doping Control at the UK Sports Council

'Sex/Gender verification in international sports: the need to re-examine policy - and our notions of femininity, physical equality and fair play,' by Alison S Carlson, with related correspondence and papers

Correspondence regarding the statement on gender verification for consideration 	 by the Women's Sports Foundation

'Gender verification in sport' by Professor Arne Ljungqvist

Gender verification correspondence and papers, April-December

Gender verification correspondence and papers, February-December

Correspondence concerning the news that genetic based screening for female gender was to be abandoned by the IOC and the reaction thereto

Drafts of a letter to the editor of the Lancet, by Dr Joe Leigh Simpson et al, and 'Gender verification of female athletes,' by Dr Louis J Elsas et al, for Genetics in Medicine

Comments from members of the "fax club" on the drafts of letters for the Lancet, and Genetics in Medicine

Revised drafts of a letter to the editor of the Lancet (under the title 'Gender verification in the Olympics,'), and 'Gender verification of female athletes'

Gender verification correspondence, March-November

Report on the American Medical Association policy on gender verification

Material for illustrative slides on the history of gender verification tests

Photocopied, faxed background material on gender verification, mostly press-cuttings and short articles

Correspondence regarding Ferguson-Smith's revision of his chapter on gender verification in the Oxford Textbook of Sports Medicine

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