Stories
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
- Article
Performing my disability
Caroline Butterwick explores the idea of disability as performative, and the pressure to act out what we think others expect.
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
- Article
Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'The effects of high flying with reasons for the administration of oxygen and simple methods of combating the effects of diminished pressure', Air Ministry Medical Memorandum no 22, c.1925
Date: c.1925Reference: PP/HEW/M.3/19Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Audio CD & Booklet, 'Air Pressure'
Date: 2012Reference: WT/C/6/3/32/1Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Notes by J B S Haldane on Mixtures of Hydrogen and Air
Date: c.1945Reference: HALDANE/4/16/1/39Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
The medical problems of flying : including reports nos. I-VII / of the Air Medical Investigation Committee.
Date: 1920- Archives and manuscripts
"Effects on buildings / air pressure" slides
Date: c.1985Reference: SA/MED/J/8/23Part of: Medact