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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.

  • Article

The power of unicorns

Discover the unlikely connection between pharmaceuticals and unicorns.

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The making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

  • Interview

Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies

Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.

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  • AIDS and syphilis: exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • High matter, dark language : the philosophy of Robert Fludd (1574-1637) an exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine catalogue / [prepared by] Christine English, Michael Fend and Robert Jan van Pelt.
  • The carnival of lost emotions / The Centre for the History of the Emotions.
  • A tree showing the evolution of health care in the twentieth century. Colour print by J. Galloway and R. Richards, 2011.
  • Various items from various CMAC Collection.
  • Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • A man. Oil painting.
  • A man. Oil painting.
  • Paul Ferdinand Gachet. Etching by V. van Gogh, 1890.
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