{"id":6045,"date":"2010-04-16T16:28:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=6045"},"modified":"2010-04-16T16:28:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:28:04","slug":"wellcome-trust-centre-for-the-history-of-medicine-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/04\/16\/wellcome-trust-centre-for-the-history-of-medicine-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine to Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who don&#8217;t follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corporeality.net\/museion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biomedicine on Display<\/a>, Thomas S\u00f6derqvist has been spreading the news there that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/histmed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine<\/a> is to close down over the next couple of years.\u00a0 Apparently the Centre&#8217;s history of medicine faculty are to be absorbed into University College London, and the Wellcome <a href=\"http:\/\/library.wellcome.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcomecollection.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Collection<\/a> will remain largely unaffected.\u00a0 Nevertheless, even for those of us who rarely cross into the history of medicine and the life sciences, the Wellcome Centre&#8217;s reputation as a center of scholarship is well-known, and one has to wonder what the scale of the implications will be.\u00a0 For further information, see the recent posts and comments at Biomedicine on Display and the new <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsofwtchom.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friends of the WTCHOM blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>: There is now also a more definitive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/extract\/340\/apr16_2\/c2094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">story<\/a> at the <em>British Medical Journal&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/channels\/news.dtl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who don&#8217;t follow Biomedicine on Display, Thomas S\u00f6derqvist has been spreading the news there that the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine is to close down over the next couple of years.\u00a0 Apparently the Centre&#8217;s history of medicine faculty are to be absorbed into University College London, and the Wellcome Library<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine to Close<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/04\/16\/wellcome-trust-centre-for-the-history-of-medicine-to-close\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}