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Keeping the Culture Alive: The Laboratory Technician in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Medical Research (2008)

Tansey, E. M. (Author)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 62
Pages: 77--95

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Technicians”
Language: English

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Medicine Oral history Research Laboratory technicians 20th century Medical Research Council (Great Britain)

This paper reports results from a detailed study of the careers of laboratory technicians in British medical research. Technicians and their contributions are very frequently missing from accounts of modern medicine, and this project is an attempt to correct that absence. The present paper focuses almost entirely on the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research in North London, from the first proposal of such a body in 1913 until the mid 1960s. The principal sources of information have been technical staff themselves, largely as recorded in an extensive series of oral history interviews. These have covered a wide range of issues and provide valuable perspectives about technicians' backgrounds and working lives.

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