Stories
- Article
The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
- Article
How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
- Article
Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 96.
- Ephemera
- Online
Dramasán (drammamina e clorotin) : un positivo avance en la terapéutica del mareo, vómitos y náuseas / Instituto Sanitas Sociedad Peruana.
Date: [1951]
- Ephemera
- Online
Largactil : anaesthesia, psychiatry, nausea and vomiting, pain... : Phenergan promethazine, a phenothiazine derivative unique in its action : pruritis motion sickness, insomnia, drug sensitization, pre-operative tension, Parkinsonism / Poulenc Limited.
Date: [1955]
- Ephemera
- Online
Should these clouds gather in your holiday sky, try : 'Marzine' ...
Date: [approximately 1922]
- Ephemera
- Online
Neuroplagico Largactil : lo que hay que saber del: Largactil ... / marcas Rhône Poulenc Specia.
Date: [1963]