Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
History of medicine - Wellcome History of 20th Century Medicine group
Date: 1991-1994Reference: PP/AJB/3/26Part of: Beale, (Alan) John (1923-2005), Virologist- 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
History 3 - Woman in Medicine: Various Papers
Date: 1910-1980Reference: SA/MWF/C.7-9Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Date: 1985 - 1987Reference: SA/BIO/G/8Part of: The Biochemical Society
