Stories
- Article
The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
- Article
The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
- Interview
Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies
Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Brook, Edward W. (U.S. Senator) (National Institute of General Medicine)
Date: 1973Reference: JDW/2/2/239Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Books
International conference on avian tumor viruses : sponsored by National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland and Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina / editor Joseph W. Beard.
International Conference on Avian Tumor Viruses (1964 : Duke University)Date: [1964]- Books
Moral theory and moral judgments in medical ethics / edited by Baruch A. Brody ; a joint project of Baylor College of Medicine, the Institute of Religion, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Date: 1988- Books
William Harvey, tercentenary commemoration, 1957 : catalog of exhibit "William Harvey and the circulation of the blood," / prepared by National Heart Institute and National Library of Medicine.
National Heart Institute (U.S.)Date: [1957]- Books
Psychopharmaca : a bibliography of psychopharmacology, 1952-1957 / Compiled for the Psychopharmacology Service Center, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health.
Caldwell, Anne E.Date: [1958]