Edwin Clarke at the Wellcome Institute

Edwin Clarke at the Wellcome Institute

On 31 December 1979 Edwin Clarke, M.D., F.R.C.P., relinquished his post as Director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in order to devote himself full time to his investigations into the history of the neuro-medical sciences. Readers of this journal will be familiar with his earlier work in the subject, including (with C. D. O'Malley) The human brain andspinal cord(University...

New developments at the Wellcome Institute

After a diaspora lasting three years, the Wellcome Institute has been reunited under the roof of 183 Euston Road, in the refurbished Wellcome Building. The Library is still located on the second and third floors, with its reading room a central feature. The Library has expanded, however, with more open shelving for its reference collection and modern printed books, and a separate area (The Poyn...

Edwin Clarke, MD, FRCP (1919-1996).

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. Wellcome and Osler.

The lives of Sir William Osler (1849-1919) and Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) have much in common: they were nearly coevals; both were natives of North America who ended their lives in England; both devoted their lives to medicine and achieved public honours; both are commemorated in a variety of eponymous institutions; more importantly for present purposes, both pursued the study of medical hi...

EHPnet: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

To measure discrepancies in diagnoses and recommendations impacting management of proliferative lesions of the breast, a questionnaire of five problem scenarios was distributed among over 300 practicing pathologists. Of the 230 respondents, 56.5% considered a partial cribriform proliferation within a duct adjacent to unequivocal ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) as atypical ductal hyperplasia (AD...