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

The Wellcome belief Centre for the historical past of medication at UCL produces a variety of courses, together with the Wellcome Witnesses to 20th Century medication sequence. those volumes are edited transcripts of Witness Seminars at which major figures in twentieth-century medication talk about discoveries and occasions in contemporary clinical heritage. Twenty-two released volumes can be found from December 2004. For extra info see: www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/witnesses.html The prevention of rhesus sickness of the baby stands as a gorgeous scientific good fortune tale. This disorder hundreds of thousands of newborns every year, inflicting critical illnesses, even loss of life. but from the early Forties to the Seventies British and American researchers exposed the root of the illness and built the clinical intervention which could hinder its prevalence. the various key steps resulting in this notable fulfillment came about on the college of Liverpool institution of medication. Chaired by way of Professor Sir David Weatherall this Witness Seminar, 'The Rhesus issue and disorder prevention' (volume 22), examines the criteria that brought on those reviews and the demanding situations confronting scientists and clinicians; the highbrow, institutional, and social components that guided the paintings; the the most important insights; and the vistas that the prevention of Rh ailment has opened in fetal drugs. individuals contain 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.