Cavanagh, John Barr (b 1921)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/7
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Cavanagh, John Barr (b 1921)
Date(s)	: 1958-1977
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Cavanagh | John Barr | b 1921 | Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

It consists of various papers deliberately assembled by Professor Cavanagh on the subject of Minamata Disease, a neurological disorder caused by methyl mercury poisoning of which there was an epidemic at Minamata Bay in Japan in the 1950s due to industrial pollution of the water. It includes a number of original papers accumulated by Dr Douglas McAlpine who conducted the 1958 investigation at Minamata with Dr S Araki of Kumamto, and also later correspondence of Cavanagh with McAlpine himself and others who help to elucidate the nature and causation of the disease in order to discover the various contributions.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Documents on 'Minamata disease', 1958-1977.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

box as set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Online catalogue

Archival Information

Archival history:

This collection was given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1977 by Professor J B Cavanagh, then Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology. In October 1980 the collection was transferred from Western Manuscripts to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1977 by Professor J B Cavanagh, then Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology. In October 1980 the collection was transferred from Western Manuscripts to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome online catalogue by Barbara Ball

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
August 2008