Dr Claus Newman: thalidomide papers

This collection is uncatalogued. The following is an interim description which may be altered when detailed cataloguing takes place in future.

Papers of Dr Claus Newman’s clinical and legal work concerning children born with defects caused by Thalidomide and subsequent assessments and legal battles. Includes files on X and Y lists, medical panel points scheme, medical records and clinical correspondence, papers relating to compensation and claims, articles, talks and papers written by Dr Newman, and collected resources and professional correspondence.

1960s-2010s

16 boxes; 1 portfolio; 2 CDs

Dr. Claus Newman was a Consultant Pediatrician. Part of his work when appointed as a consultant in 1969 to Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton was to look after a unit of thalidomide affected children.Throughout his career he worked with thalidomide-affected children and their parents, including on X and Y lists, assessments and legal battles.

Wellcome holds several other archive collections relating to thalidomide:

MS.9127: Ian Millan: papers on thalidomide and the early years of the Thalidomide Society

OH1: Thalidomide: An Oral History

PP/SML: Professor Richard Worthington Smithells: Archives

SA/TSY: The Thalidomide Society

SA/TTT: The Thalidomide Trust

Transferred to Wellcome.

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Acquired from the home of Dr Claus Newman. Some records were destroyed by the donor prior to acquisition as the donor thought they were not of interest to us and contained sensitive medical information. Some records set aside for destruction were recovered from bin bags by archivists, and so original order of these files has been disturbed. Where this occurred, it is noted in the box list.