General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "Innovation in Pain Management", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 12 December 2002. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 21 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Innovation in Pain Management, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2004).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor David Clark), organisers of the meeting (Professor David Clark and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts and marketing leaflets for the meeting.

Handwritten notes and copies of e-mails regarding the organisation of the meeting and notes between the organisers and editors regarding the transcript and accommodating people's comments.

Documents include:

A seminar handout titled "Barriers to Pain Relief Around the World", which listed selected references in chronological order on one side and two graphs showing consumption of morphine by year on the other side. The graphs appeared as figures 6 and 7 in the published volume.