Photo of books from the Stewart Cameron UK Kidney History Archive at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE)

Historic video and film

• UK Kidney History on Vimeo:  our own site, the UKKidneyHistory video collection includes some unique content, and some from others.
  
• Tomorrows World (1965) – The first ever Tomorrow’s World on BBC TV in 1965 included a piece about an exciting new treatment called haemodialysis. Outstanding.
  
• 1979 – Renal Failure – the challenge. UK government Information film on Treatment of Renal Failure (1970s)
• ISHD – Collection of historic films on early days of dialysis from the International Society for Haemodialysis. US-centric.

Books: The Stewart Cameron Archive

A collection of important historic texts forms the Stewart Cameron Archive, which is held at the RCPE in Edinburgh. Catalogue and details of the Stewart Cameron Archive.

Renal Association/UK Kidney Association Archive

Contains

• Obituaries of past members
• History of Renal Association
• Fifty years of Haemodialysis in the UK (Stewart Cameron, Robin Eady, Nick Hoenich)

Paediatric Nephrology

• History of European Paediatric Nephrology (YouTube channel) – interviews with many pioneers.

Interviews

• On this site: Interviews with many notable UK professionals, patients, and carers are linked from Remarkable People. The original recordings are held in various locations.
  
• Other interview collections: A number of famous figures in UK nephrology feature in national and international collections. These include some recorded by ISN, some by the Royal College of Physicians, and others. The ISN Videolegacy project, initiated and curated by Kim Solez with Stewart Cameron, is the source of many of these:
  
  • • Full YouTube playlist of classic interviews (182 videos listed, not all interviews)
    • Second YouTube playlist (may overlap)
    • Transcripts of many of the interviews (Cybernephrology at Univ Alberta)

Physical and virtual museums

• Science Museum, London
• Wellcome Collection, London
• Virtual museum of dialysis machines and equipment at Home Dialysis Central
• Leeds Thackray Medical Museum has the impressively massive Brigham-Kolff rotating drum kidney used at Leeds General Infirmary from 1956.
• Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh does not have anything on regular display, but in store it has a Travenol-Kolff machine and some other dialysis equipment from the 1960s and later.
  

Last Updated on February 1, 2025 by neilturn