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- 1993-1997 (Creation)
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6 boxes
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GB 0120 GC/253 1993-1997 Collection (fonds) 6 boxes Wellcome Witness Seminars
This material was given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in November 1998 by Dr Tilli Tansey of the Twentieth Century Group, Academic Unit, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Papers relating to the Wellcome Witness Seminars, 1993-1997, including original audio tapes of the seminars (in most cases, master plus copy); photographs of witnesses and other participants; correspondence, both administrative and between the Twentieth Century Group and witnesses; and programmes and lists of participants.
All audio-visual materials (except for third and further copies of tapes), participant lists and programmes have been retained. Drafts with major or significant comments by contributors have also been kept. Routine administrative correspondence, duplicates and drafts with minor corrections have been weeded. Transcripts have only been retained for those seminars for which these were not eventually published in some form. Copyright assignment forms are held on file by the CMAC.
Arranged by seminar.
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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Additional uncatalogued material relating to later Witness Seminars, acc 1046.
The proceedings of most of these seminars have been published, in two volumes, EM Tansey, PP Catterall, DA Christie, SV Willhoft, LA Reynolds (eds), Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Volume I: Witness Seminar Transcripts (1997) and EM Tansey, DA Christie, LA Reynolds (eds), Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Vol II: Witness Seminar Transcripts (1998), available from the Wellcome Library. The proceedings of Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health, edited by Stephen Lock, were published by Rodopi in 1998.
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
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.
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This material was given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in November 1998 by Dr Tilli Tansey of the Twentieth Century Group, Academic Unit, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
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Papers relating to the Wellcome Witness Seminars, 1993-1997, including original audio tapes of the seminars (in most cases, master plus copy); photographs of witnesses and other participants; correspondence, both administrative and between the Twentieth Century Group and witnesses; and programmes and lists of participants.
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All audio-visual materials (except for third and further copies of tapes), participant lists and programmes have been retained. Drafts with major or significant comments by contributors have also been kept. Routine administrative correspondence, duplicates and drafts with minor corrections have been weeded. Transcripts have only been retained for those seminars for which these were not eventually published in some form. Copyright assignment forms are held on file by the CMAC.
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Arranged by seminar.
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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.
Conditions governing reproduction
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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Additional uncatalogued material relating to later Witness Seminars, acc 1046.
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- Psychiatry » Clinical psychology » Psychoanalysis
- Social problems » Addiction
- Agricultural products
- Agricultural products » Plant products
- Agricultural products » Plant products » Tobacco
- History
- Anatomy
- Microbiology
- Microbiology » Virology
- Medical sciences » Endocrinology
- Social problems
- Biology
- Biology » Radiobiology
- Chemicals
- Personnel management
- Personnel management » Conditions of employment
- Personnel management » Conditions of employment » Working conditions
- Medical sciences
- Therapy
- Pathology
- Pathology » Diseases
- Psychiatry » Clinical psychology
- Psychiatry
- Systems of medicine » Preventive medicine » Vaccination
- Systems of medicine » Preventive medicine
- Systems of medicine
- Pharmacology
- Family planning
- Psychology
- Research work » Field work » Interviews
- Research work » Field work
- Research work
- History » Historical methods » Oral history
- History » Historical methods
- Government » Public administration
- Government
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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.
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- English