Cassette Tapes and Diskettes

File consists of audio cassette tapes of the seminar, and a dictaphone tape. There are also two DVD's which have been extracted from the file and are stored separately.

The seminar tape cassettes are two Maxell UR120 audio cassette tapes (two master tapes) used to record the seminar on "Early Development of Total Hip Replacement", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 14 March 2006. 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 as Volume 29 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Early Development of Total Hip Replacement, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2006).

The seminar cassette tapes are marked as follows:

Witness Seminar. 14 March 2006. Tape 1 Master.

Witness Seminar. 14 March 2006. Tape 2 Master.

The Philips LFH mini dictaphone tape is marked, "K.M.N. Kunzru".

The first DVD (Tesco DVD-R), lasting 30 minutes and shown at the seminar, is a silent film proved by Professor B.M. Wroblewski, Wrightington, and is labelled, "Charnley Low Friction Arthroplasty, 1963".

The second DVD (Sony DVD-R) from M.B. Heywood-Waddington is a digital copy of a film made at Norwich in 1966 on a 8mm movie camera. It lasts around 10 minutes and demonstates the essential features of McKee's original procedure.

Digital material includes recordings, papers and photographs relating to the seminar and can be found under Cassette Tapes and Diskettes.

2006

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