Correspondence. Surnames, 'Abraham' to 'Edwards'

File consists of correspondence with people who have surnames from Abraham to Edwards, related to the seminar on, "Early Development of Total Hip Replacement", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 14 March 2006. 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 29 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Early Development of Total Hip Replacement, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2006).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Alan Lettin), advisers and organisers of the meeting (Professor Dr Ravi Kunzru, Dr Francis Neary 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 copy, Sir John Charnley, "The Development of the Centre for Hip Surgery at Wrightington Hospital", provided by Harry Craven; a reprint of G.K. McKee, "Total Prosthetic Replacement of the Hip", Physiotherapy, December 1967, provided by Clare Darrah; an article copy, G.K. KcKee and J. Watson-Farrar, "Replacement of Arthritic Hips by the McKee-Farrar Prosthesis", Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, British Number, May 1966; an article copy, G.K. McKee and S.C. Chen, "The Statistics of the McKee-Farrar Method of Total Hip Replacement", Clinical Orthopaedics, no.95, September 1973; the funeral address for George Kenneth McKee dated 25 July 1991; and other documents related to G.K. McGee.

Correspondence with those not listed as participants including; Maureen Abraham; Dr Julie Anderson; Ron Ansell (apologies); Professor Gordon Blunn; Frank Brown (apologies); John Challis (apologies); Simon Chaplin (apologies); Professor Christopher L. Colton who provided biographical details; and Andy Crosbie.

2005-2007

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The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.