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Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Active	1968–1999
Parent institution	Wellcome Trust
Address	Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE , London , United Kingdom
Website	http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/^[1]

The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (1968–1999) was a London centre for the study and teaching of medical history.^[2]^[3] 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 Medicine

1913–1936 Henry S. Wellcome, LLD, DSc, FRS (Founder and Director)
1913–1925 C. J. S. Thompson, MBE (Curator)
1925–1934 L. W. G. Malcolm, MSc, PhD, FRSE (Conservator)
1934–1947 Captain Peter J. Johnston-Saint, MA, FRSE (Conservator) (photo)
1941–1945 Dr S. H. Daukes, OBE, MD
1946–1964 Edgar Ashworth Underwood, MD, FRCP
1964–1973 F. Noël L. Poynter, BA, PhD, Hon MD, FLA
1973–1979 Edwin Sisterton Clarke, MD, FRCP
1980–1981 Prof. Alfred Rupert Hall, MA, LittD, FBA (Chairman)
1981–1983 Peter O. Williams, MB, FRCP
1983–1987 Prof. William Paton, CBE, DM, FRCP, FRS^[4]

Librarians

1900–1913 C. J. S. Thompson
1913–1918 T. W. Huck, FLA
1919–1921 C. C. Barnard, MLA
1921–1925 W. R. B. Prideaux, BA, FLA (photo)
1925–1931 C. R. Hewitt, FLA
1932–1946 S. A. J. Moorat, MA, DipLib (obit)
1946–1953 W. J. Bishop, FLA
1954–1964 F. Noël L. Poynter, BA, PhD, Hon MD, FLA
1964–1973 E. Gaskell, BA, ALA
1973–1996 Eric J. Freeman, BA, ALA^[4]
1996–2004 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 2000-2009, while the following persons succeeded David Pearson as Librarians of the Wellcome Library.

2004–2009 Frances Norton
2010–2014 Simon Chaplin
2015– Robert Kiley (acting)

Academic Unit in 1992

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)^[4]

References

^ "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.
^ ^a ^b ^c Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: A Brief Description. 1992.

External links

Works by or 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).