Cassette Tapes and Diskettes

File consists of audio cassette tapes of the seminar and also of an interview with Professor Philip M. Sheppard. The digital material containing Microsoft Word versions of the published volume and other information have been extracted from the file and are stored separately.

The seminar tape cassettes are three TDK audio cassette tapes (three master tapes) used to record the seminar on "The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 3 June 2003. 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 22 of the Witness Seminar series, D.T. Zallen, D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey (editors), The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2004).

The seminar cassette tapes are marked as follows:

Group Witness Seminar. The Rhesus factor Story. Tuesday 3 June 2003. Tape 1 (Side A + Side B). Master.

Group Witness Seminar. The Rhesus factor Story. Tuesday 3 June 2003. Tape 2 (Side A + Side B). Master.

Group Witness Seminar. The Rhesus factor Story. Tuesday 3 June 2003. Tape 3 (Side A + Side B). Master.

The interview cassette tape is a Maxell UR90 tape and is marked Professor P.M. Sheppard 1979. It is a copy of the recording from 18 March 1968 of Professor Philip Sheppard who gives a brief account of the prevention of Rh Haemolytic disease (the recording is referred to in a footnote of the published volume on page xx). The original is available at the John Innes Centre Archives and comes from the Genetics Society Archive.