Correspondence

File consists of papers and correspondence related to the seminar on "Self and Non-self: A History of Autoimmunity", which was held at the Wellcome Institute on 14 February 1995. 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 with three other seminars in Volume 1 of the Witness Seminar series, E.M. Tansey, P.P. Catterall, D.A. Christie, S.V. Willhoft, L.A. Reynolds (editors), Technology Transfer in Britain: The Case of Monoclonal Antibodies; Self and Non-self: A History of Autoimmunity; Endogenous Opiates; The Committee on Safety of Drugs, (London: Wellcome Trust, 1997).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the organiser (Sir Christopher Booth), the Steering Group (Professor Bill Bynum, Dr Stephen Lock and Dr Tilli Tansey), and others include:

List of attendees.

General correspondence with seminar attendees, requests for information and comments on the published document from attendees and non-attendees including; Dr B. Askonas (Imperial College); Sir James Gowans; David A. Isenberg (Professor of Rheumatology, The Middlex Hospital); Horace Judson (The George Washington University); Dr Harmke Kamminga (Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine); Thomas Lehner (Division of Immunology, Guy's and St Thomas's); Professor Maurice H. Lessof; A.M. McGregor (Professor of Medicine, King's College, London); Professor N.A. Mitchison (Scientific Director, Deutches RheumaForschungsZentrum, Berlin); Dr Anne-Marie Moulin (Inserm U158); Professor J. Newsom-Davis (Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford); Professor Sir Keith Peters (University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine); Professor Thomas W. Rademacher (University College London Medical School); and Dr Alison Vine (Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford).

Detailed commentary on the transcripts include; Peter N. Campbell's marked up version of the transcript; Professor Leibowitz's transcript amendments; Maurice Lessof's transcript amendments; David Tyrell's transcript amendments; Professor Batchelor's transcript amendments; Professor Noel R. Rose (Director, Johns Hopkins Reference Laboratory for Immunologic Disorders) observations on the contents of the published manuscript (not a witness); Professor Doniach's transcript amendments; Professor Batchelor's transcript amendments; and Professor Brent's transcript amendments.

1994-1996

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General correspondence is arranged by correspondent in alphabetical order (witnesses, attendees and non-attendees not separated). Detailed commentary on the transcripts including amendments is at the end and is not in alphabetical order.