Drugs Affecting 5-HT Systems
DRUGS AFFECTING 5-HT SYSTEMS The transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary, University of London, on 20 November 2012 Edited by C Overy and E M Tansey Volume 47 2013 ©The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 2013 First published by Queen Mary, University of London, 2013 The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity, no. 210183. ISBN 978 0 90223 887 9 All volumes are freely available online at www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/ wellcome_witnesses/ Please cite as: Overy C, Tansey E M. (eds) (2013) Drugs Affecting 5-HT Systems. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, vol. 47. London: Queen Mary, University of London. CONTENTS What is a Witness Seminar v Acknowledgements E M Tansey and C Overy vii Illustrations and credits ix Abbreviations xi Ancillary guides xiii Introduction E M Tansey xv Transcript Edited by C Overy and E M Tansey 1 Appendix 1 Pioneering research by SmithKline Beecham: 5-HT3 receptor antagonism and anti-emetic activity Professor Gareth Sanger 139 Biographical notes 141 References 159 Index 187 Witness Seminars: Meetings and Publications 203 WHAT IS A WITNESS SEMINAR? The Witness Seminar is a specialized form of oral history, where several individuals associated with a particular set of circumstances or events are invited to meet together to discuss, debate, and agree or disagree about their memories. The meeting is recorded, transcribed and edited for publication. This format was first devised and used by the Wellcome Trust’s History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group in 1993 to address issues associated with the discovery of monoclonal antibodies.
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