Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Stories

  • Article

Eugenics and the welfare state

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

  • Article

Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

  • Article

Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’

An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.

  • Article

Race, religion and the Black Madonna

Mystery and controversy surround the dark-skinned religious icon who represents the Virgin Mary throughout the Catholic world.

All stories (19)

Images

  • The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
  • Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. I, The evolution of modesty : The phenomena of sexual periodicity / by Havelock Ellis.
  • The Boston medical and surgical journal.
  • Photocopies, microfilms : the International Veterinary Society for Zootechnics takes the liberty of placing its library organisation to the disposal of all its members with the system of photocopies or microfilms.
  • Photocopies, microfilms : the International Veterinary Society for Zootechnics takes the liberty of placing its library organisation to the disposal of all its members with the system of photocopies or microfilms.
  • On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow.
  • On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow.
  • The London and provincial medical directory.
  • A table of the springs of action : shewing the several species of pleasures and pains, of which man's nature is susceptible: together with the several species of interests, desires, and motives, respectively corresponding to them: and the several sets of appellatives, neutral, eulogistic and dyslogistic, by which each species of motive is wont to be designated: to which are added explanatory notes and observations ...
  • Physiologie pathologique ou recherches cliniques, expérimentales et microsopiques sur l'inflammation, la tuberculisation, les tumeurs, la formation du cal, etc / par H. Herbert, accompagné d'un atlas de vingt-deux planches gravées.
All images (251)

Catalogue

All works (13K)