File consists of correspondence with people who have surnames from Fowden to Hawkins, related to the seminar on, "Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality After Preterm Birth", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 15 June 2004. 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 25 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality After Preterm Birth, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2005).
Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Dr Edmund Hey), organisers of the meeting (Sir Iain Chalmers and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include:
Detailed information for the seminar, commentary on the transcripts and feedback on the meeting from participants. Documents include; an article by, Steve Hanney, Miranda Mugford, Jonathan Grant and Martin Buxton, "Assessing the Benefits of Health Research: Lessons from Research into the Use of Antenatal Corticosteroids for the Prevention of Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome" published in Social Science and Medicine.
Correspondence with those not listed as participants including; Professor Abby Fowden (attendee); Professor Aidan Halligan (apologies); Professor Mark Hanson (apologies); and Professor D.F. Hawkins who provided comments on the transcript.