Stories
- Article
The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
- Article
Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Virtual reality and the fix of the future
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Burke, N.H.M. and Miller, E. (1929) "Child mental hygiene - its history, methods and problems". British Journal of Medical Psychology 9(3), 218-242.
Date: 1929Reference: PP/LOW/E/19Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld
- Books
- Online
The memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson, written by his widow Lucy / edited by Harold Child.
Hutchinson, Lucy, 1620-Date: 1904- Videos
The history of paediatric surgery.
Date: 1980- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0003938 - C0005784
Date: 2000-2001Reference: WT/B/11/1/33Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000727 - C0000769
Date: 1997-1998Reference: WT/B/11/1/18Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive