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Between 2003 and 2015, a series of six international workshops on the broad theme of Genetics, Medicine and History has been held, under the auspices of the Genetics and Medicine Historical Network (Genmedhist), with a seventh workshop planned for 2017. The principal aim of the workshops was to promote mutual understanding and awareness between historians and those scientists and clinicians working in the field of human and medical genetics. This understanding and its practical consequences of collaboration and the greater preservation of both written records and the oral history of the field have been highly beneficial to all involved. The individual workshops were not published, though some of the material presented has appeared elsewhere. The book History of Human Genetics contains contributions to different workshops in the series and to a workshop in Berlin on the history of genetic counselling. The programmes of the different workshops are published in the Appendix, while this chapter provides a more general account of the workshop series as a whole, so that other chapters can be placed within the wider context of the topics to which they contribute.
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The archive of the History of Human Genetics Project, which includes material on the International Workshop Series, is held by Cardiff University Special Collections and Archives (SCOLAR), in association with other archival material of Professor Peter Harper.
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See footnote 3.
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www.genmedhist.org/workshops: Second workshop.
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Quote from report to Wellcome Trust, June 2010.
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Jones and Tansey 2015.
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Jones, Emma M., E M Tansey (eds): (2015): Human Gene Mapping Workshops, ca. 1973 – c. 1991. London: Queen Mary University London. (Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. 54)
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We are grateful for the financial support received from Wellcome Trust through specific workshop grants and on one occasion the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). ESHG also provided financial support, in addition to wider support in terms of meeting rooms available and other facilities. We should especially like to thank Dr. Jerome del Picchia, ESHG Executive Officer, and his colleagues, for their extensive help both during and between meetings.
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Harper, P.S., Petermann, H.I. (2017). The International Workshops on Genetics, Medicine and History: An Overview, 2003–2015. In: Petermann, H., Harper, P., Doetz, S. (eds) History of Human Genetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51783-4_2
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