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- 2002-2003 (Creation)
- 1965-2003 (Accumulation)
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From a lever arch file inscribed 'IIAC | 13.2.03'
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Correspondence and papers (including reports and research papers 1965-2002) re the IIAC Research Working Group meeting, 13 February 2003, to which Nancy Tait was invited to present her evidence. Previously, Tait had submitted three OEDA reports, 'Asbestos to challenge fibre counts', 'Asbestos fibres in lung tissue' (both 2002) and the earlier 'The diagnosis of asbestos-related lung cancer PDD8' (2001/2002).
Includes material from Tait's submissions, annotated current research papers and contemporary literature examining Sir Richard Doll’s career and questioning his authority. Older publications contained in this aggregation include:
- photocopy of Nancy Tait's paper (with Dr V J Harvey) (1983) 'Mesothelioma patients referred to Hackney Hospital - a preliminary report', presented at the Anglo-French Social Medicine conference, Winchester
- photocopy of evidence presented by Nancy Tait and Jean Robinson to the Simpson Committee, 28 June 1977; on Jean Robinson see below
- extensively marked photocopy of H A Anderson et al. (1976) ‘Household-contact asbestos neoplastic risk’
- photocopy of M Newhouse and H Thompson (1965) 'Mesothelioma of pleura and peritoneum following exposure to asbestos in the London area'
Patient activist Jean Robinson (b. 1930, née Lynch) was one of the original SPAID trustees. She had been a member of several patient groups when she became the chair of the Patients Association in 1973. In 1979 she became a lay member of the General Medical Council (GMC).
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