Stories
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
T Landheer: Short history of European Collaborative Health Services Study
Date: Feb 1995Reference: GC/191/19/6Part of: ECHS - European Collaborative Hospitals/Health Service Study- Archives and manuscripts
European Collaborative Health Services Study: notes on history and organisation
Date: Apr 1986Reference: GC/191/12/4Part of: ECHS - European Collaborative Hospitals/Health Service Study- Archives and manuscripts
UK Hospital & Health Services Atlas
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1998Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/2Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0003938 - C0005784
Date: 2000-2001Reference: WT/B/11/1/33Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Society of Medical Officers of HealthDate: 1856-1998Reference: SA/SMO