The Rhesus Factor And Disease Prevention (Wellcome Witnesses by Doris Teichler Zallen, D. A. Christie, E. M. Tansey

By Doris Teichler Zallen, D. A. Christie, E. M. Tansey (Editors)

The Wellcome belief Centre for the heritage of medication at UCL produces a variety of guides, together with the Wellcome Witnesses to 20th Century drugs sequence. those volumes are edited transcripts of Witness Seminars at which major figures in twentieth-century medication speak about discoveries and occasions in fresh clinical heritage. Twenty-two released volumes can be found from December 2004. For additional info see: www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/witnesses.html The prevention of rhesus illness of the child stands as a beautiful clinical luck tale. This affliction bothered millions of newborns every year, inflicting critical illnesses, even loss of life. but from the early Forties to the Nineteen Seventies British and American researchers exposed the root of the affliction and built the scientific intervention which may hinder its prevalence. some of the key steps resulting in this awesome fulfillment happened on the collage of Liverpool college of medication. Chaired through Professor Sir David Weatherall this Witness Seminar, 'The Rhesus issue and ailment prevention' (volume 22), examines the criteria that caused those experiences and the demanding situations confronting scientists and clinicians; the highbrow, institutional, and social elements that guided the paintings; the an important insights; and the vistas that the prevention of Rh sickness has opened in fetal medication. members comprise Professor Robin Coombs, the past due Professor Ronald Finn, Dr Nevin Hughes-Jones, Professor Patrick Mollison, Dr Archie Norman, Dr Derrick Tovey, Professor Charles Whitfield, Professor John Woodrow and Professor Doris Zallen.