Air Pollution
Research in Britain c.1955–c.2000
Jones E M, Overy
C, and Tansey E M. (eds) (2016)
Wellcome
Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, vol. 58.
London: Queen Mary University of
London.
ISBN 978 1 91019
5147
A new
volume of Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine is freely available to
download at the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website:
'… that whole
shift in our understanding of how air pollution can have effects on systems
beyond the respiratory system has led not only to studies of perinatal
outcomes, but to cognitive defects, rheumatoid arthritis, appendicitis.
Anything is possible.' Professor
Ross Anderson
A Witness Seminar
on the history of air pollution research in the UK, with discussion on
investigations by the MRC Air Pollution Unit at Barts (1955–1978) into impacts
on respiratory health, and more recent research into cardiovascular events and
other long-term effects of particulate matter, such as lung cancer. Chaired by
Professor Anthony Seaton (Aberdeen) with an introduction by Professor Jonathan
Grigg (QMUL).
'I just
suddenly thought, ‘'That’s it! It’s air pollution that is changing fibrinogen.
Fibrinogen makes the blood clot and blood clots cause heart attacks’'.' Professor Anthony Seaton
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