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New Publications
Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine

"Few books are so intellectually stimulating or uplifting".
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (1999) 92: 206?8, review of vols 1
and 2

"This is oral history at its best--all the volumes make compulsive
reading--they are, primarily, important historical records". 
British Medical Journal (2002) 325: 1119, review of the series

The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL has an
established programme of publications covering a wide range of periods and
aspects of the history of medicine. The Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth
Century Medicine series consists of edited transcripts of Witness Seminars
at which significant figures in twentieth-century medicine discuss
discoveries, debates and events in recent medical history. Twenty two
volumes are available with Innovation in Pain Management (Volume 21) and The
Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention (Volume 22) published in December 2004.

Innovation in Pain Management

Unrelieved pain caused by cancer is experienced by more than 5 million
people worldwide, and over the past 50 years has been accepted as
unnecessary by both clinicians and politicians. Major innovations in the
understanding of pain and our ability to treat it have been made. This
Witness Seminar, chaired by Professor David Clark, describes the development
of clinics, the introduction of the hospice in Britain, and global
implementation of innovative technologies for cancer pain relief and
advances in research during the latter part of the twentieth century,
including the ?3-step pain ladder? to pain relief. International health
planners argue that the outstanding challenge is to put this knowledge into
practice in healthcare settings around the world, often where resources are
limited. Participants include Professor Sir Michael Bond, Dr Suresh Kumar,
Dr Colin, Murray Parkes, Dame Cicely Saunders, Professor Jan Stjernswärd, Dr
Robert Twycross and Professor Duncan Vere.

Reynolds L A, Tansey E M. (eds) (2004) Innovation in Pain Management.
Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 21. London: The
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. ISBN 0 85484 097 4

The Rhesus Factor and Disease Prevention

The prevention of rhesus disease of the newborn stands as a stunning medical
success story. This disease afflicted thousands of newborns each year,
causing serious health problems, even death. Yet within a period of 30
years ? from the early 1940s to the 1970s ? British and American researchers
uncovered the basis of the disease and developed the medical intervention
that could prevent its occurrence. Many of the key steps leading to this
remarkable achievement took place at the University of Liverpool School of
Medicine. Chaired by Professor Sir David Weatherall this Witness Seminar
examined the factors that triggered these studies and discussed the
challenges confronting scientists and clinicians; the intellectual,
institutional, and social factors that guided the work; the crucial
insights; and the vistas that the prevention of rhesus disease
has opened in fetal medicine. Participants included Professor Robin Coombs,
the late Professor Ronald Finn, Dr Nevin Hughes-Jones, Professor Patrick
Mollison, Dr Archie Norman, Dr Derrick Tovey, Professor Charles Whitfield,
Professor John Woodrow and Professor
Doris Zallen.

Zallen D T, Christie D A, Tansey E M. (eds) (2004) The Rhesus Factor and
Disease Prevention. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol.
22. London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.
ISBN 0 85484 099 0

Price: £6 plus postage per volume.

Copies of these paperbacks are available from:
www.bertrams.com
www.gardners.com
www.amazon.co.uk

All volumes are also freely accessible and available to download from our
website 
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/witnesses.html


Dr Daphne Christie
History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
at UCL
210 Euston Road
London
NW1 2BE

Tel 020 7679 8125
Fax 020 7679 8193
E-mail d.christie@ucl.ac.uk
www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed
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