GB 0120 SA/SIG - Sigerist Society

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GB 0120 SA/SIG 1947-1955 Collection (fonds) 1 box Sigerist Society

Named after Henry Ernest Sigerist (1891-1957) the Swiss medical historian, the Sigerist Society was founded in 1947 by a group of left wing doctors with a strong Marxist component. They met 2 or 3 times a year to discuss medicine in society, and wider philosophical issues. Members included Philip Hart, Martin Roff, Richard Doll and Julian Tudor Hart. The Society probably ended in 1955.

Papers given to the Wellcome Library in 1995 by Mrs Avis Hutt, widow of Alan Roscoe Clarke who was a member of the Society.

Records of meetings of the Sigerist Society, 1947-1955.

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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.

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

Papers of Sir Richard Doll are held as PP/DOL.

More information on socialist perspectives on medicine and health, from a slightly later period, can be found in the papers of the Politics Of Health Group (SA/PHG).

Compiled by Anya Turner.

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.

June 2008 Hart , Julian Tudor- , b 1927 , physician Doll , Sir , William Richard Shaboe , 1912-2005 , Knight , epidemiologist and cancer researcher Organizations Associations Societies Marxism Medical sciences Medical profession Social stratification Social class Political doctrines Collectivism Communism Caribbean South Asia India Southern Africa South Africa Eastern Europe USSR Sigerist Society

Papers given to the Wellcome Library in 1995 by Mrs Avis Hutt, widow of Alan Roscoe Clarke who was a member of the Society.

Records of meetings of the Sigerist Society, 1947-1955.

Unknown

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

Papers of Sir Richard Doll are held as PP/DOL.

More information on socialist perspectives on medicine and health, from a slightly later period, can be found in the papers of the Politics Of Health Group (SA/PHG).

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