Development of Physics Applied to Medicine Related Documents 2

  • The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
Date:
1950-1972
Reference:
GC/253/A/28/10
Part of:
Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

File contains original documents related to the seminar which were provided by the participants. The documents include;

The booklet, Barry Barbour and W. Abbott, Computing and Operational Research at The London Hospital, (London: Butterworths, 1972).

Article reprint, Barry Barbour and W. Abbott, "Computers in the Hospital Service", The Hospital, November 1966.

A paper by Barry Barber titled, "Towards Patient Administration Systems", undated.

A series of reports with titles;

"The Memorial Hospital Medical Computer Project: A Brief Progress Report", by William Siler and John S. Laughlin, undated.

"The Case for the London Hospital Computer", Hammersmith seminar, 29 April 1965.

Reports on a variety of computing topics numbered, 615, 809, 824, 825, 876, 907, 982, 988, 994, 995, 1042, 1057. Some reports are attributed to "The Physics Department" of The London Hospital in 1957, 1961 and 1962. There are also separate reports on, "The Work of the Physics Department April 1960 - April 1961", and "The Work of the Physics Department April 1961 - April 1962".

"The London Hospital Computer Unit: Progress Report". Reports for both 1965 and 1966.

"The London Hospital Computer and Operational Research Unit". Progress reports for 1967.

Several of Barry Barber's published articles in the, British Journal of Anaesthesia in 1969 and Operational Research Quarterly. There are also copies of articles written by L.A.W. Kemp of The London Hospital, sometimes together with Barry Barber, dating from the 1950's and 1960's.

Publication/Creation

1950-1972

Physical description

1 file

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  • 1493