Volume 23. 'The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders'

Series consists of papers, correspondence, photographs, cassette tapes and digital material related to the seminar on "The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 25 November 2003. In addition the series covers some material from an unpublished seminar "Thrombolysis" that took place on 28 January 2003.

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 23 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2005).

The participants for the seminar were; Dr Y.S. (Mick) Bakhle; Professor Sir Christopher Booth; Professor Gustav Born; Professor Donald Chambers; Professor John Dickinson; Professor Peter Elwood; Professor Rod Flower; Professor Alison Goodall; Professor John Hampton; Professor Michael Harrison; Professor Stan Heptinstall; Dr Peter Hunter; Dr Peter Maccallum; Dr Martyn Mahaut-Smith; Professor Tom Meade (Chair); Professor Salvador Moncada; Professor Michael Oliver; Professor Clive Page; Professor Sir Stanley Peart; Professor Colin Prentice; Professor Peter Richardson; Dr Stewart Sage; Dr Tilli Tansi; and Dr Duncan Thomas.

The editors of the published transcript were L.A. Renolds and E.M. Tansey with an introduction by Professor Tom Meade.

The meeting organisers were Professor Gustav Born and Dr Daphne Christie.

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Others present at the meeting included; Dr Valerie Alabaster; Dr Nicky Begent; Andrew Beswick; Dr Joseph Blau; Dr Jack Botting; Dr Renia Botting; Dr Richard Farndale; Dr Richard Jarvis; Dr Kiheung Kim; Professor Jeremy Pearson; Ian Roney; Dr Pia Siljander; Felicity Youlten; and Dr Lawrence Youlten.

Apologies sent by; Professor Sir Charles George; Dr John Gordon; Professor Susanna Hourani; Dr Michael Humphreys; Professor John Martin; Professor Carlo Patrono; Professor Sir John Vane; Dr Steve Watson; and Dr Harvey Weiss.

Digital material includes recordings, papers and photographs relating to the seminar and can be found under Transcripts and Photographs.

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