Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
- Article
Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
- Article
Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Roth, M. - On a Possible Relationship Between Hereditary Ataxia Peroneal Muscular Atrophy; with a Critical Review of the Problems of ''Intermeadiate Forms'' in the Degenerative Disorders of the Central Nervous System
Date: 1948Reference: DGH1/6/18/180Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Kingsbury Maternity Hospital
Date: Apr 1956 - May 1956Reference: PENROSE/2/39/6/13Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Athens, University of
Date: Feb 1956 - Apr 1956Reference: PENROSE/2/39/6/2Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Baragwanath Hospital
Date: Feb 1956 - Mar 1956Reference: PENROSE/2/39/6/3Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
St. Albans City Hospital
Date: Jul 1962 - Nov 1962Reference: PENROSE/2/39/6/24Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers