In this final interview Sir Stanley Peart speaks about his main activities outside St Mary's. He reflects on his time as chairman of the Medical Research Society (for 10-15 years from the mid-1960s), and his association with the Royal Society - as a fellow from 1969, and on the council 1973-74 and 1987-88 - noting the organisation's advisory role. Next, Sir Stanley outlines his work with the Medical Research Council: his five-year stint on the council during which he was involved in the decision to create an MRC unit in reproductive biology in Edinburgh, and his role in the MRC working party for hypertension in the elderly in the late 1970s which led to a long-term collaboration with the epidemiologist Geoffrey Rose. The discussion moves on to Sir Stanley's association with the Wellcome Trust; his first encounters with the trust when Henry Dale was chairman, the careers of Henry Dale and Trustee Henry Barcroft, the changing nature of the organisation over the years and the importance of patronage in funding medical research. He then describes his personal interest in the history of medicine: the contribution of seminal figures such as Stephen Hales and Richard Bright, and key developments in many medical fields in the nineteenth century. At the end of the interview Sir Stanley talks of his interest in opera and sport, and acknowledges the support of his wife over the years.
Medical Research Society; Royal Society; Medical Research Council; reproductive biology; Geoffrey Rose; Wellcome Trust; Henry Dale; Henry Barcroft; history of medicine; Stephen Hales; Richard Bright
Administration, Health services administration, Research, History of medicine, Wellcome Trust,
vid-164, MSVA_112
Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/000235
Peart, StanleyBlythe, Max
Learning Resources
Original artefact: 1995 RADAR resource: 2017
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