A to Z of topics:

Apoptosis

• Mince, tatties and apoptosis (pdf)
  Reproduced courtesy of the Dumfries and Galloway Medical Journal, vol II, 1999
• History
• BMJ summary

Sir Dugald Baird

• The "Fifth freedom"
• Baird and the abortion debate
• Centenary tribute

Aneurin Bevan

• Tredegar Medical Aid Society
• Bevan primary sources:
• Bevan radio clip 1949

William Beveridge

• Profile
• Text of the Report on the BBC website

Sir Douglas Black

• Profile
• Obituary
• Black Report full text

Sir James Black

• Video of an interview © Nobel Web AB:
• Profile
• Autobiography

Cancer screening

• History and analysis
• Ian Frazer and HPV vaccine

Cathcart Report and the development of health centres

• Health Centres and the early NHS Marguerite Dupree
  (Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow)
• Sighthill – the first new health centre to open in 1953
  Press cutting from The Herald (pdf)
  Background briefing for journalists (pdf)

The Citadel

• Background on the novel
• Trailer from the film:

Archie Cochrane

• Biography
• The Cochrane Collaboration

Sir John Crofton

• Biography, Crofton J (1949). Biography

Delivery Day

• Booklet which went out to all households Your Health Service: how it will work in Scotland

Sir Richard Doll

• Reprint of the 1954 article
• Obituary

Dr Finlay

• TV's Dr Finlay
• The real Dr Finlay
• Carlos Finlay commemorative stamps

General Practice

• Royal College history
• Ear Surgery Pros and Cons
• Edinburgh history General practice and the Edinburgh Medical School: 200 years of ...

Glasgow Coma Scale

• Background

Highlands and Islands Medical Service

• Kenneth Robinson, first surgeon on South Uist
• Morrice McCrae on early HIMS history
• Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky

HIV/AIDS

• UK history

Hospitals – pre 1948

• Mearnskirk hospital
• Matthew Hay

Innovations

• Sir Kenneth Murray The Million Dollar Microbe – newspaper article courtesy of The Herald (pdf)
• Address from Murray's honorary doctorate at Dundee

Alick Isaacs and Interferon

• Link to the original 1957 paper
• Lindenmann's first meeting with Isaacs Isaacs A & Lindenmann J. Virus interference. I. The interferon ...

Sir Andrew Watt Kay – first Chief Scientist

• Kay's BMJ citations In Honor of 150 Years: Classic Papers from the British Medical ...

Keyhole surgery

• Address from Cuschieri's honorary doctorate at Dundee

Hans Kosterlitz and Enkephalins

• Kosterlitz obituary New York Times
• Kosterlitz profile

Scottish Medicine

• Polish Medical School:
• Scottish Society of the History of Medicine which itself was founded in 1948

MRI Scans

• Francis Smith's account of the early Aberdeen work
• Current and future applications

MRSA

• Discoverer – Alexander Ogston
• Hugh Pennington's historical analysis
• Health Protection Scotland

NHS Scotland – an evolving history

• Summary of changes to 1992
• Developments 1948-73 Marguerite Dupree (Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow)

Nursing

• UK History

George Orwell

• Orwell and TB

Partnership delivery

• Princess Royal Trust for Carers
• WRVS Scotland

Public Health Challenges

• Scottish Public Health Observatory
• Glasgow Centre for Population Health

Improving Public Health

• Health Scotland

Thalidomide

• Kuenssberg et al letter to the BMJ 1961
• Bionic Arm
• David Simpson obituary
• Thalidomide Society

Transplantation

• Edinburgh unit history

Tuberculosis

• Scotland and TB in the 1950s TB, Glasgow and the Mass Radiography Campaign in the Nineteen ...
• Patients' stories
• History
• International History
• A Children's Sanatorium in Wales
• International Control

Typhoid in Aberdeen

• History Scotland article
• History and Policy - Lessons learned from the outbreak
• Aberdeen University historical research

Ultrasound

• History - Britain
• History - General
• Ian Donald – diagnostician and moralist