Seminar. 'The Committee on Safety of Drugs'

Sub-series consists of papers, correspondence, photographs and cassette tapes related to the seminar on "The Committee on Safety of Drugs", which was held at the Wellcome Institute on 12 March 1996. 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 with three other seminars in Volume 1 of the Witness Seminar series, E.M. Tansey, P.P. Catterall, D.A. Christie, S.V. Willhoft, L.A. Reynolds (editors), Technology Transfer in Britain: The Case of Monoclonal Antibodies; Self and Non-self: A History of Autoimmunity; Endogenous Opiates; The Committee on Safety of Drugs, (London: Wellcome Trust, 1997).

The participants were; Professor Sir William Asscher (London); Dr Derek Bangham (London); Sir Christopher Booth (London); Professor David Davies (Boston Spa); Professor David Finney (Edinburgh); Dr Roy Goulding (London); Mr Stephen Hall (Saxmundham); Professor Bill Inman (Southampton); Dr Ekke Kuenssberg (Edinburgh); Dr Stephen Lock (Chair) (London); Dr Tilli Tansey (London); Mr Wilfred Turner (Twickenham); Professor Owen Wade (Stratford upon Avon); Dr Josephine Weatherall (Charlbury); and Professor Miles Weatherall (Charlbury).

The organisers of the meeting were Dr Stephen Lock and Dr Tilli Tansey and the editors of the published transcript were Dr Tilli Tansey and Mrs Lois Reynolds.