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Medical History and the Wellcome Trust Centre

As many readers will already know, the Wellcome Trust has announced the closure of its Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, with a two-year wind-down to commence in September 2010. Vivian Nutton and Roger Cooter took over as Acting Editors in October 2009, with Bill MacLehose and Stephen Jacyna as Reviews Editors. Among our immediate tasks was preparing for the retir...

The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL

On 30 September 2000, the Academic Unit of the Wellcome Institute will cease to exist, to undergo reincarnation as the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. This is in line with decisions taken by the Wellcome Trust's Governors back in June 1999, and is the product of extensive and successful negotiations between the Trust and UCL conducted over the cou...

The Science Museum Wellcome Wing, London

London's Science Museum has this summer launched the most ambitious project in its 140-year history with a new £50 million extension featuring a key exhibition on life science. With funds from the country's national lottery and the medical research charity, the Wellcome Trust, the museum has built a new Wellcome wing to add to its unique 250-year-old collection of technology. The new wing aims ...

Wellcome / Epsrc Centre for Surgical and Interventional Sciences

A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library

on Sir John Simon and the author's own work on government intervention in health matters in the nineteenth century. Although it is no criticism of the contents of the book, the title is apt to mislead in two ways. First, the history is really of modern public health since the mid-eighteenth century. A mere fifteen pages, out of a total of two hundred and nine, hardly constitutes even a short hi...