Product Description: The history of clinical pharmacology in the UK over the last half of the twentieth century is largely untold. Many important new drugs were developed and brought to market in the 1950s and 1960s ensuring the need for more systematic knowledge of drug effects in humans and also providing new career opportunities in teaching, research and practice...read more

Product Description: Changing attitudes toward human experimentation along with other controversial moral issues emerged after the Second World War and, in 1963, led to the establishment of the London Medical Group, organized by Ted Shotter, with similar Medical Groups elsewhere from 1967...read more

Product Description: Total hip replacement effectively began in the UK in 1938 and has led to widely used, commercially successful, mass-produced devices that relieve pain for an ever increasing period. The Witness Seminar, chaired by Mr Alan Lettin, discussed the remarkable postwar collaboration of British surgeons, engineers and manufacturing firms in the development of efficient alloys, surgical procedures, instruments and the implementation of clean, bacteria-reduced air in enclosed operating theatres, as illustrated by successful prostheses and techniques developed in Norwich (Kenneth McKee), Wrightington (Sir John Charnley), Stanmore (John Scales), Redhill (Peter Ring), and Exeter (Robin Ling and Clive Lee)...read more

Product Description: The New Zealand obstetrician and endocrinologist Graham (Mont) Liggins and pediatrician Ross Howie showed a reduction in the incidence of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in those preterm babies receiving corticosteroids before birth in the first randomized controlled trial (RCT), published in 1972...read more

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Product Description: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL produces a wide range of publications, including the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine series. These volumes are edited transcripts of Witness Seminars at which significant figures in twentieth-century medicine discuss discoveries and events in recent medical history...read more

Product Description: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL produces a wide range of publications, including the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine series. These volumes are edited transcripts of Witness Seminars at which significant figures in twentieth-century medicine discuss discoveries and events in recent medical history...read more