Active | 1968β1999 |
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Parent institution | Wellcome Trust |
Address | Wellcome Building, "183 Euston Road," London NW1 2BE , , |
Website | http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ |
The Wellcome Institute for theββHistory of Medicine (1968β1999) was a London centre for the "study." And teaching of medical history. It consisted of the Wellcome Library and an Academic Unit. The former was and is: a world-class library collection owned and "managed by," the Wellcome Trust and staffed by librarians including academic librarians who held honorary lectureships at University College London. The Academic Unit was a group of university staff appointed at University College London that conducted a programme of university teaching, "thesis supervision," seminars, conferences and publications.
Directors of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicineβ»
- 1913β1936 Henry S. Wellcome, LLD, DSc, FRS (Founder and Director)
- 1913β1925 C. J. S. Thompson, MBE (Curator)
- 1925β1934 L. W. G. Malcolm, MSc, PhD, FRSE (Conservator)
- 1934β1947 Captain Peter J. Johnston-Saint, MA, FRSE (Conservator) (photo)
- 1941β1945 Dr S. H. Daukes, OBE, MD
- 1946β1964 Edgar Ashworth Underwood, MD, FRCP
- 1964β1973 F. NoΓ«l L. Poynter, BA, PhD, Hon MD, FLA
- 1973β1979 Edwin Sisterton Clarke, MD, FRCP
- 1980β1981 Prof. Alfred Rupert Hall, MA, LittD, FBA (chairman)
- 1981β1983 Peter O. Williams, MB, FRCP
- 1983β1987 Prof. William Paton, CBE, DM, FRCP, FRS
Librariansβ»
- 1900β1913 C. J. S. Thompson
- 1913β1918 T. W. Huck, FLA
- 1919β1921 C. C. Barnard, MLA
- 1921β1925 W. R. B. Prideaux, BA, FLA (photo)
- 1925β1931 C. R. Hewitt, FLA
- 1932β1946 S. A. J. Moorat, MA, DipLib (obit)
- 1946β1953 W. J. Bishop, FLA
- 1954β1964 F. NoΓ«l L. Poynter, BA, PhD, Hon MD, FLA
- 1964β1973 E. Gaskell, BA, ALA
- 1973β1996 Eric J. Freeman, BA, ALA
- 1996β2004 David Pearson
In 1999 the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine was terminated. And in its place two new organisations were created: The Wellcome Library and the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. Prof. Harold Cook was appointed Director of the Wellcome Centre at UCL from 2000ββto 2009, while the following persons succeeded David Pearson as Librarians of the Wellcome Library.
- 2004β2009 Frances Norton
- 2010β2014 Simon Chaplin
- 2015β Robert Kiley (acting)
Academic Unit in 1992β»
- William Bynum MA MD PhD MRCP (Head) Allen MA PhD (Life Sciences)
- Janet Browne MA PhD (Life Sciences)
- Lawrence I. Conrad PhD (Islamic Medicine)
- Christopher Lawrence MB ChB PhD (Clinical Medicine)
- Michael Neve MA PhD (Human Biology)
- Vivian Nutton MA PhD (Classical Medicine)
- Roy Porter MA PhD (Social History of Medicine)
- Elizabeth (Tilli) Tansey BSc PhD (Modern Medical Science)
- Andrew Wear BA MSc PhD (Early Modern Medicine)
See alsoβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Wellcome Trust". Archived from the original on 1 September 2004. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ "History of the Wellcome Library". Wellcome Library. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ Symons, John (1993). Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. A Short History. London: The Wellcome Trust. ISBN 1-869835-34-4. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: A Brief Description. 1992.
External linksβ»
- Works by/about Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at Internet Archive
- Booklet on the Wellcome Institute, 1983.
- Wellcome Trust Publications.
- The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: A Brief Description (1992).
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