Collection GB 0120 GC/53 - Keen, William Williams (1837-1932)

1 box and ten posters

GB 0120 GC/53 1885-1927 Collection 1 box and ten posters Keen , William Williams , 1837-1932 , surgeon

US brain surgeon, born 1837 in Philadelphia; educated at Brown University, graduated 1859, and Jefferson Medical College, 1862; served in American Civil War as a surgeon; additional education in Paris and Berlin; founded Philadelphia School of Medicine; developed new techniques of brain surgery; died 1932. Publications include: Keen's System of Surgery (1905-1913), Animal Experimentation and Medical Progress (1914).

This accession of papers was transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in November 1983. It had apparently been given to the Wellcome Museum, possibly by Keen's daughter Miss Florence Keen.

William Keen collection, including correspondence, biographical material, notes, unpublished writings and photographs, including material on his opposition to the anti-vivisection movement, and the effects of lightning, c 1885-1929.

1 box sub-divided into ten items or sub-series: biographical material (c 1927); 84th birthday celebration (1921); correspondence (1917-1926); anti-vivisection material (1885-1927); lightning (1925-1926); medical notes, 1918; unpublished writings (1906-1927); published writings (1893-1929); miscellaneous publications (1920-1924); photographs (1920).

Open. 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.

English

Online catalogue available on Wellcome Library website.

Entry copied from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.

Compiled in compliance with 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.

August 2008 Ethics Vivisection Veterinary medicine Scientific methods Experimental methods Animal experimentation Medical sciences Surgery Keen , William Williams , 1837-1932 , surgeon

This accession of papers was transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in November 1983. It had apparently been given to the Wellcome Museum, possibly by Keen's daughter Miss Florence Keen.

William Keen collection, including correspondence, biographical material, notes, unpublished writings and photographs, including material on his opposition to the anti-vivisection movement, and the effects of lightning, c 1885-1929.

1 box sub-divided into ten items or sub-series: biographical material (c 1927); 84th birthday celebration (1921); correspondence (1917-1926); anti-vivisection material (1885-1927); lightning (1925-1926); medical notes, 1918; unpublished writings (1906-1927); published writings (1893-1929); miscellaneous publications (1920-1924); photographs (1920).

Open. 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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English

Online catalogue available on Wellcome Library website.

Compiled in compliance with 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.

• anglais