GB 0120 PP/PRE - Evans, Philip Rainsford (1910-1990), and Barbara (nee Hay-Cooper) (1909-1995)

24 boxes

GB 0120 PP/PRE 1923-1989 Collection (fonds) 24 boxes Evans , Philip Rainsford , 1910-1990 , paediatrician

Evans , Barbara , 1909-1995 , nee Hay-Cooper , medical journalist and writer

Philip Rainsford Evans was born, 1910; Educated Sidcup School, Somerset and Leighton Park School; graduated BSc, Manchester University, 1930; MB, ChB, 1933; married Barbara Hay-Cooper, 1935; children's registrar, King's College Hospital, 1935-1937, Rockefeller Travelling Research Fellow, 1937-1938; Asst Paediatrician, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1938-1939; Asst Physician to Children's Dept., King's College Hospital, 1939; Served with RAMC in North Africa and Italy, mentioned in despatches, Advisor in Medicine, Central Mediterranean Forces received rank of honorary Lt-Col, 1942-1946; MSc MD, 1941; FRCP, 1945; Physician, The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, 1946-1975; Director, Dept. of Paediatrics, Guy's Hospital, 1946-1971; Editor, Archives of Disease in Childhood,1947-1954; Honorary Secretary, British Paediatric Association, 1954-1959; Honorary consultant on paediatrics to the Army, 1962-1966; Leader of the medical team sent out to the Children's Hospital, Saigon, 1966-1969; President of the section of paediatrics, Royal Society of Medicine, 1968-1969, CBE, 1968; Director, Tay-Sachs Foundation, 1971-1974; Physician-Paediatrician to the Queen, 1972-1976 , died, 1990.

Barbara Evans was born, 1909; Qualified in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, 1934; married Philip Rainsford Evans, 1935; did important pathological research in connection with Sir Archibald McIndoe's plastic surgery team at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, 1939-1945; Became a freelance journalist on medical matters, including being Medical Correspondent of the Sunday Times , 1950s; Went to Saigon with Philip Rainsford Evans, 1966; Published Caduceus in Saigon on the work of the paediatric team in Vietnam, 1968; Became Associate Editor of World Medicine, 1973; Consultant Editor of World Medicine, 1978-1980; Published Life Change, a popular manual on the menopause, 1979; Published Freedom to Choose: the Life and Work of Dr Helena Wright, Pioneer of Contraception, 1984; died, 1995.

The first accession of these papers was given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Philip Rainsford Evans in October 1983. Additional material was received in June 1995 from Caroline Evans, his daughter, following the deaths of her father and mother.

These papers reflect the careers of the paediatrician, Philip Rainsford Evans, and of his wife Barbara, mainly in her capacity as medical journalist and author, 1923-1989. They include some family and personal material; diaries, correspondence and reports on setting up a Paediatrics Department at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, 1950s-1970s; material on the activities of the British Paediatric Team in Saigon, 1966-1973, including photographs; P R Evans's correspondence as Medical Adviser to Independent Television Companies Association, 1964-1989; material more generally on P R Evans' professional activities; general medical journalism and related material of Barbara Evans; files relating to her book Life Change on the menopause; her involvement with the Research Council for Complementary Medicine; and the research materials for and correspondence relating to her biography of Helena Wright, Freedom to Choose.

A. Family and Personal: PRE and BE

B. PRE: Professional Miscellaneous

C. PRE: Uganda

D. PRE: ITCA

E. Vietnam (PRE and BE)

F. BE: Medical journalism, etc, general

G. BE: Menopause and osteoporosis

H. BE: Research Council for Complementary Medicine

J. BE: Helena Wright

(This arrangement supersedes the former list, compiled in 1984, which included only material which now forms part of sections C, D and E, and a little miscellaneous material, now in Section B).

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking, except for certain files closed for reasons of Data Protection

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.

English

In the Wellcome Library:

Papers of Helena Rosa Wright, PP/HRW.

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Jan 2009 Complementary therapies Osteoporosis Chemical actions and uses Pharmacologic actions Therapeutic uses Reproductive control agents Contraceptive agents Tropical diseases Paediatrics Medical sciences Medical profession Physicians Medical personnel Women physicians Physiology Human reproduction Sexual reproduction periods Pathology Menopause Diseases Congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities Sex distribution Sex Occupations Health occupations Medicine Specialties, surgical Gynecology People People by occupation Personnel Therapeutics Cerebral palsy Therapy Ethics Family planning Journalism Marriage Women Evans , Philip Rainsford , 1910-1990 , paediatrician Evans , Barbara , 1909-1995 , nee Hay-Cooper , medical journalist and writer Wright , Helena Rosa , 1887-1982 , née Lowenfeld , birth control pioneer Research Council for Complementary Medicine Uganda East Africa Viet Nam South East Asia

The first accession of these papers was given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Philip Rainsford Evans in October 1983. Additional material was received in June 1995 from Caroline Evans, his daughter, following the deaths of her father and mother.

These papers reflect the careers of the paediatrician, Philip Rainsford Evans, and of his wife Barbara, mainly in her capacity as medical journalist and author, 1923-1989. They include some family and personal material; diaries, correspondence and reports on setting up a Paediatrics Department at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, 1950s-1970s; material on the activities of the British Paediatric Team in Saigon, 1966-1973, including photographs; P R Evans's correspondence as Medical Adviser to Independent Television Companies Association, 1964-1989; material more generally on P R Evans' professional activities; general medical journalism and related material of Barbara Evans; files relating to her book Life Change on the menopause; her involvement with the Research Council for Complementary Medicine; and the research materials for and correspondence relating to her biography of Helena Wright, Freedom to Choose.

A. Family and Personal: PRE and BE

B. PRE: Professional Miscellaneous

C. PRE: Uganda

D. PRE: ITCA

E. Vietnam (PRE and BE)

F. BE: Medical journalism, etc, general

G. BE: Menopause and osteoporosis

H. BE: Research Council for Complementary Medicine

J. BE: Helena Wright

(This arrangement supersedes the former list, compiled in 1984, which included only material which now forms part of sections C, D and E, and a little miscellaneous material, now in Section B).

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking, except for certain files closed for reasons of Data Protection

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

In the Wellcome Library:

Papers of Helena Rosa Wright, PP/HRW.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English