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 slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
- Article
Notes on need
Writing about bodies, and hearing the stories of others’ bodies, Johanna Hedva also heard, over and over, how people blame themselves – and are encouraged to do this – for illness and disability.
Catalogue
- Journals
Sleeping sickness bulletin.
Date: 1912- Books
Sleeping sickness documents.
Date: [between 1980 and 1989?]- Books
- Online
Sleeping sickness.
Sandwith, Fleming Mant, 1853-1918.Date: 1912- Archives and manuscripts
[Sleeping sickness, malaria, trypanosome]
Date: 1914-1917Reference: WA/BSR/BA/Sci/C.2Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Film
Sleeping sickness in Kenya.
Date: 1969