General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to 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).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Alan Lettin), advisers and organisers of the meeting (Professor Dr Ravi Kunzru, Dr Francis Neary and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts, publishing permissions and marketing leaflets for 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.

Documents include;

A page of diagrams taken from an anonymous source titled, "Ring Total Hip Replacement" (hand out at the meeting).

An article copy, Philip Wiles, "The Surgery of the Osteo-Arthritic Hip", The British Journal of Surgery, vol.XLV no.193, pp.488-497, 18 March 1958 (hand out at the meeting).

An article copy, D.R. Sweetnam, "A Surveillance Scheme with Recommended List of Artifical Joints", Health Trends, vol.13 no.2, May 1981 (hand out at the meeting).