Stories
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- 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.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
Catalogue
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Renaissance commentaries on Avicenna's 'Canon', book I, part I, and the teaching of medical theoria in the Italian universities. - Appendices. Latin editions of the 'Canon' published after 1500 and editions of Latin commentaries ... written in Italy after 1500 / Nancy G. Siraisi.
Siraisi, Nancy G.Date: 1984- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 55. 'A History of Bovine TB' c. 1965 - c. 1995'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2015Reference: GC/253/A/55Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 42. "History of British Intensive Care, C. 1950 - C.2000"
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2009 - 2011Reference: GC/253/A/42Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence. Surnames 'Cassidy' to 'Meldrum'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2015Reference: GC/253/A/55/2Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence. Surnames 'Meyer' to 'Williams'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2015Reference: GC/253/A/55/3Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars