Books

Beneath the Skin

Great writers on the body

Fifteen talented writers each explore a different body part in this funny and moving collection.

Schadenfreude

The joy of another's misfortune

A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure – in a beautiful gift package.

Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts

On health and architecture

One of Britain's finest writers explores the relationship between our health and the buildings that surround us.

This is a Voice

Your voice is a powerful instrument. But do you know how to look after it? Or how to get the best out of it?

Shapeshifters

On medicine & human change

To be alive is to be in perpetual change. This book considers the transformations in mind and body that span the arc of human life.

Medieval Bodies

Life, death and art in the Middle Ages

Brings together medicine, art and social history to reveal what life was really like in the Middle Ages.

Ayurvedic Man

Encounters with Indian medicine

An exquisite treasury of illustrations and objects, this book presents a visual history of some of the earliest medical systems and healing practices in the world.

In the Bonesetter’s Waiting Room

Travels through Indian medicine

Aarathi Prasad investigates how Indian medicine came to be the way it is.

Skeletons

London's buried bones

A 64-page book including all of the burial site photographs commissioned for the exhibition.

Death

A picture album

Disturbing, macabre and moving, this beautifully illustrated clothbound book examines our enduring desire to make peace with death.

Medical London

City of diseases, city of cures

Charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city's sprawling story.

The Heart

First Prize in the Popular Medicine category for the 2008 Medical Book Awards sponsored by the British Medical Association.

Identity & Identification

Explores the philosophical, biological, and sociopolitical issues underlying our idea of self.

Tibet's Secret Temple Postcard Book

25 large-format cards showcase exquisite details from the murals and key artefacts of Tibet's Lukhang Temple.

Madness and Modernity

Mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900

Sets out to chart the theme of madness across a variety of territories in Vienna in 1900.

States of Mind

Experiences at the edge of consciousness

A collection of literature, science and art delving into the mysteries of human consciousness.

Sleeping and Dreaming

A book that takes a fresh look at the apparently simple question of why humans sleep and dream.

Brains

The mind as matter

A fully illustrated and fascinating exploration of the brain.

Dirt

The filthy reality of everyday life

Dirt is waste, excrement, rubbish – but what then is soil? Is cleanliness next to godliness or sterility?

Diary Drawings

Mental illness and me

Winner of the MIND Book of the Year 2011