Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - A Video Archive and Outreach Project. (360G-Wellcome-080160_Z_06_Z)

This proposal is to record, transcribe, and archive video interviews with 12 scientists who have made substantial contributions to modern neuroscience. The key goals are: To deposit material in the Wellcome Library so that it is available to historians, and other analysts of and commentators on contemporary medicine and medical science. Transcripts will also be available on either the web-site of the Wellcome Library and/or that of the British Neuroscience Association (BNA). To edit each interview for professionals in the neurosciences and cognate subjects, to enhance their understanding of the historical and scientific precedents of contemporary neuroscience, and illuminate the pathways of discovery behind standard accounts. To produce shorter recordings of each interviewee to raise and address issues of public interest that arise from biomedical science, and to describe what neurosceintists have done To develop and deliver an integral public engagement programme that effectively targets the audiences for goals 2 and 3.