GB 0120 GC/45 - Black, Sir Douglas (Andrew Kilgour)

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GB 0120 GC/45

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Black, Sir Douglas (Andrew Kilgour)

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  • c 1960-1991 (Creation)

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1 box

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Biographical history

Sir Douglas was Professor of Medicine at Manchester University and Physician at Manchester Royal Infirmary, 1959-1977, and Chief Scientist at the Department of Health and Social Security, 1973-1977. His publications include Sodium metabolism in health and disease (1952), Essentials of fluid balance (4th ed., 1967), The logic of medicine (1968), and Renal disease (1979). The Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine has a copy of the Black Report (1982) on Inequalities in Health, of which Liverpool University Archives holds a typescript with appendices which were not published.

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GB 0120 GC/45 c 1960-1991 Collection (fonds) 1 box Black , Sir , Douglas , 1913-2002 , Knight , physician

Sir Douglas was Professor of Medicine at Manchester University and Physician at Manchester Royal Infirmary, 1959-1977, and Chief Scientist at the Department of Health and Social Security, 1973-1977. His publications include Sodium metabolism in health and disease (1952), Essentials of fluid balance (4th ed., 1967), The logic of medicine (1968), and Renal disease (1979). The Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine has a copy of the Black Report (1982) on Inequalities in Health, of which Liverpool University Archives holds a typescript with appendices which were not published.

These papers were given by Sir Douglas Black to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in two accessions. Sections A and B were received in October 1982 and Section C in December 1991.

Papers of Sir Douglas Black, c 1960-1991, including lecture notes; annotated edition of Essentials of Fluid Balance and papers on the Rothschild Report, 1973-1977.

The lecture notes are mostly handwritten and some are merely outlines of subjects covered. No attempt has been made to list them in detail, but they have been arranged in subject groups, renal diseases forming by far the largest section. OUTLINE LIST: A: Lecture notes; B: Essentials of Fluid Balance; C: The Rothschild Report.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Mar 2009. Kidney diseases Medical sciences Diseases Pathology Black , Sir , Douglas , 1913-2002 , Knight , physician

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

These papers were given by Sir Douglas Black to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in two accessions. Sections A and B were received in October 1982 and Section C in December 1991.

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Papers of Sir Douglas Black, c 1960-1991, including lecture notes; annotated edition of Essentials of Fluid Balance and papers on the Rothschild Report, 1973-1977.

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The lecture notes are mostly handwritten and some are merely outlines of subjects covered. No attempt has been made to list them in detail, but they have been arranged in subject groups, renal diseases forming by far the largest section. OUTLINE LIST: A: Lecture notes; B: Essentials of Fluid Balance; C: The Rothschild Report.

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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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English

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Wellcome Library

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General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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