Correspondence Regarding the Publication, 'Ashes to Ashes'

File consists of documents and correspondence regarding the publication of the book on the symposium "Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health", which was held at the Wellcome Institute on 26 & 27 April 1995. The symposium was notionally part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. However, unlike any of the other published seminars in that series, the transcripts were published in the Wellcome Institute's History of Medicine series. The published work was, S.P. Lock, L.A. Reynolds, and E.M. Tansey (editors), Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health, (London: Wellcome Trust, 1998).

Details of the documents and correspondence, primarily between Dr Stephen Lock, Historian of Twentieth Century Medical Science (meeting organiser and joint editor of the book on the symposium), Dr Tilly Tansey ( joint editor of the book on the symposium) and others include:

List of authors and table of contents.

Discussions regarding the pictures to be used in the published book (produced by Rodopi), particularly in regard to the illustrations used in David Harley's lecture.

Dorothy Parker's report on the essays in the volume.

Discussion between Dr Lock and Dr Tansey regarding changes and amendments to the volume.

Copy of an article by Stephen Lock on "Ashes to Ashes".

Correspondence about the volume with the following speakers, witnesses and participants from the symposium; Sir John Crofton; Dr Jordan Goodman; William Schupbach; Professor Alan Brandt; Dr Virginia Berridge; Kjell Bjartveit; and Professor Constance Nathanson.

Letter of intention to publish a book sent by Dr Stephen Lock, 1 May 1995, sent to the speakers and witnesses.

Publication progress letter from Dr Tilli Tansey to the speakers and witnesses dated 4 September 1996.

1994-1996

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Not arranged in either date order or alphabetically by respondent but correspondence on a particular subject or with a particulalr person is kept together.