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Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
Created to guide and fund medical research in Britain, this government committee helped lay the groundwork for what later became the Medical Research Council. Its reports capture an early moment when public health, laboratory science, and national policy were starting to work closely together.
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An atlas of gas poisoning
by Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
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Great Britain’s Medical Research Committee was established in 1913 as the body responsible for directing and supporting medical research under the National Insurance Act. In 1920, it was reconstituted as the Medical Research Council, so works published under the committee’s name belong to the early history of one of Britain’s most important research institutions.
Rather than a single writer, this is a corporate author: a government scientific body whose publications include annual reports, memoranda, and special report series. These documents are especially useful for readers interested in the development of modern medical research, wartime medicine, and the growth of organized public funding for science in the United Kingdom.
Because this is an institution rather than an individual person, there is no single author portrait to use here.