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World Organisation of Gastroenterology


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 SA/OMG

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: World Organisation of Gastroenterology

Date(s): 1958-2000

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 boxes and 1 outsize box

Name of creator(s): World Organisation of Gastroenterology x International Society of Gastroenterology x Organisation Mondiale de Gastroentérologie

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Organisation originated as the International Society of Gastroenterology, founded at the First International Congress of Gasteroenterology in Brussels, 1935; the Society was reconstituted as the Organisation Mondiale de Gastroentérologie or World Organisation of Gastroenterology at a joint meeting with various related American Societies in Washington DC, 1958.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the World Organisation of Gastroenterology, 1958-2000, comprising administrative records, 1958-1995; publications including congress reports, bulletins, newsletters and World Gastroenterology News, 1935, 1958-1995; photographs and long playing records.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined 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.

Physical characteristics:

1 outsize box

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Further materials will probably accrue.

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Papers were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by the Honorary President and archivist-historian of the Organisation, Professor Francisco Vilardell MD FRCP in 1995 and 1997. Audio-visual material relating to the 1958 International Congress, minutes, and copies of the journal were received in 2000.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Papers of Sir Richard Doll (1912-2005) PP/DOL; papers of The Prout Club, SA/PRO; papers of the British Society of Gastroenterology, SA/BSG; papers of Thomas Cecil Hunt, GC/46; papers relating to Balsalazide, GC/241.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.

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: June 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Gastroenterology | Internal medicine | Medical sciences
Intellectual cooperation | Cultural cooperation | Cultural policy
Specialties, medical

Personal names

Corporate names
World Organisation of Gastroenterology x International Society of Gastroenterology x Organisation Mondiale de Gastroentérologie

Places