Stories
- Article
Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
- Article
Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
- Article
Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
![Cases of the diabetes mellitus; with the results of the trials of certain acids, and other substances, in the cure of the lues venerea / [John Rollo].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0023252/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Trials
Date: 1971-1997Reference: PP/DAG/C/1Part of: Galton, David Abraham Goitein (1922-2006)- Archives and manuscripts
Trials
Date: 1967-1976Reference: PP/RJH/H.5Part of: Hetherington, Robert J- Archives and manuscripts
Trials/Studies
Date: 1961 - 1986Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Trials of machines for use in domiciliary confinements
Date: Apr 1963-Jan 1964Reference: SA/NBT/H.2/9Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Books
Trials directory, April 1997 / Medical Research Council.
Medical Research Council (Great Britain)Date: [1997]