Stories
- Book extract
A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
- 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
The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
- Article
Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
Catalogue
- Books
Histoire polymorphe de l'internat en médecine et chirurgie des hôpitaux et hospices civils de Paris / Jacques Fossard ; preface de Michel Arsac.
Fossard, Jacques.Date: 1982- Books
Let me heal : the opportunity to preserve excellence in American medicine / Kenneth M. Ludmerer.
Ludmerer, Kenneth M.Date: [2015]- Books
Family doc : the making of a family practitioner / Robert E. Brown.
Brown, Robert E., 1962-Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
This is going to hurt : secret diaries of a junior doctor / Adam Kay.
Kay, Adam, 1980-Date: 2017- Archives and manuscripts
Artist-in-residence programme (2000-2003)
Date: February-September 2002Reference: WT/D/1/18Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive