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# Wellcome Institute of/for the History of Medicine (WIHM)

Wellcome Institute of/for the History of Medicine (WIHM)

successor institution to Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Wellcome Historical Medical Library

1968 - Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine 1973 - Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (title change) 1976 - creation of joint Academic Unit with UCL WIHM still in existence in 1993, albeit fragmented across different buildings: Academic Unit, Bentley House, ...

see [Symons 1993](https://archive.org/details/Symons1993/mode/2up), p[46ff](https://archive.org/details/Symons1993/page/n49/mode/2up), p[57n67](https://archive.org/details/Symons1993/page/n61/mode/2up)

List of staff associated with WIHM