Correspondence With Speakers and Witnesses Regarding Symposium Papers and Transcripts

File consists of the papers to be presented at, correspondence regarding the papers to be presented at, and feedback on the transcripts of the symposium, "Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health", which was held at the Wellcome Institute on 26 & 27 April 1995. The symposium was notionally part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. However, unlike any of the other published seminars in that series, the transcripts were published in the Wellcome Institute's History of Medicine series. The published work was, S.P. Lock, L.A. Reynolds, and E.M. Tansey (editors), Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health, (London: Wellcome Trust, 1998).

Details of the papers and correspondence, primarily between Dr Stephen Lock, Historian of Twentieth Century Medical Science (meeting organiser and joint editor of the book on the symposium), and others include:

Typed programme for the two-day symposium and a schedule of the papers to be presented (plus corrections schedule).

Papers presented by and comments on discussion transcripts from; Sir Frances Avery Jones; Dr Keith Ball (paper titled, "Horace Joules' Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking"); Virginia Berridge (paper titled, "Science and Policy: The Case of Post War British Smoking Policy"); Sir Christopher Booth (paper titled, "Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians"); Professor Hugh Cockerell (paper titled, "Tobacco and Victorian Literature"); Sir John Crofton (page on Austin Bradford Hill and the Nobel Prize); Sir Richard Doll (paper titled, "The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer"); Charles Fletcher (paper titled, "The Story of The Reports on Smoking and Health by the Royal College of Physicians"); Dr Jordan Goodman; Dr David Harley (paper titled, "The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting"); Dr Matthew Hilton & Dr Simon Nightingale (paper titled, "A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make: Religion and Science in the British Anti-tobacco Movement 1853-1908"); Dr Stephen Locke (introduction); Professor Roy Porter (paper, "Ashes to Ashes"); David Simpson; and Peter Taylor (paper titled, "Government and Industry - In It Together").

Correspondence with non-attendees and guest attendees including; Dr Francis J C Roe (attendee); and Professor Allan Brandt (attendee).

1995-1997

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Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.