Stories
- Article
Sex work, stigma and whorephobia
Like everyone, sex workers sometimes need medical or mental health support. But shame and stigma seriously affect attitudes and access.
- Article
The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
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Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1936Reference: WF/M/GB/30/09Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Chartered Society of PhysiotherapyDate: 1894-2011Reference: SA/CSP
- Pictures
- Online
James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
Date: 17 March 1783Reference: 20790i- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1932-1933Reference: WF/M/GB/30/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Envelopes 4-150 [some missing/culled].
Date: c.1910-1991Reference: SA/PHC/D.3/22/1Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)