Stories
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
- In pictures
The post-war adverts that tried to cure lonely women
Isolated housewives, lonely female office workers: while the 1950s saw the birth of a general concern about them, manufacturers also spotted an opportunity. Find out how advertising promised that products could salve solitude.
- In pictures
A history of art in hospitals
Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.
- Article
Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
Catalogue
- Books
Medical historians, librarians and bibliographers : will they ever meet? / Eric J. Freeman.
Freeman, Eric J.Date: 1982- Books
Eminent medical historians of Europe whose first manuscripts to an American periodical were contributed to 'Medical life'.
Date: 1929- Books
A medico-historical pilgrimage to the Third International Congress of the History of Medicine at London : followed by visits to medical historians at Edinburgh, Strassburg, Vienna, and Leipzig / by Victor Robinson.
Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947.Date: 1923- Books
Historians' Medical Information Bureau.
Date: 1985- Books
British historians of medicine. II / by F.N.L. Poynter and W.J. Bishop.
Poynter, F. N. L. (Frederick Noël Lawrence), 1908-1979.Date: 1948
