Neil Weir wrote Otolaryngology – An Illustrated History (1990, 2nd edition with Albert Mudry, 2013), for which he received the University of London George Davey Howell Memorial Prize, and is currently President of the British Society for the History of ENT. As Founder Co-Chairman of the British Voice Association, Neil Weir continues his interest in voice both clinically and as a keen opera lover.
Latest Contribution
History of innovation in ENT
Innovation seems to have been in the strapline of every meeting, conference and course for the last few years. You would be forgiven for thinking it is a new a concept, but as Neil Weir beautifully details, innovation has been...
The Medical Art Society
Historian, sculptor and general polymath Neil Weir neatly demonstrates the strong links between our speciality and the creative arts, along with his colleague from the Medical Art Society, Jeanette Cayley. At a summer meeting of the British Medical Association in...
Manuel Patricio Rodriguez Garcia (1805-1906): The ‘inventor of the laryngoscope’ and world-renowned singing teacher
Paris was the birthplace of the laryngoscope, invented by Manuel Garcia. As we are in Paris for IFOS 2017, Neil Weir tells us about this fascinating man, who travelled the world and was a renowned singer and laryngologist. Manuel Patricio...
