Stories
- Article
The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
- Article
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
A nose through Blythe House
Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Hospitals & Facilities
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1991Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/17Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Medieval western hospitals : social or health care facilities / Eduard Seidler.
Seidler, EduardDate: 1989- Books
History of hospitals : the evolution of health care facilities proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West, August 31-September 6, 1986, Susono-shi, Japan / edited by Yosio Kawakita, Shizu Sakai, Yasuo Otsuka.
International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine, East and West 1986 : Susono-shi, Japan)Date: [1989], ©1989- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
From Friedenheim to hospice : a century of cancer hospitals / Caroline C.S. Murphy.
Murphy, Caroline C. S.Date: 1989