Stories
- Article
Dancing for joy
Dancing is a mood enhancer, it increases social bonding and it improves creativity. Maybe you really can dance all your troubles away.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
- Article
Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
Catalogue
- Books
Economic aspects of the doctor-patient relationship in Japan : from the eighteenth century until the emergence of social insurance / Naoki Ikegami.
Ikegami, Naoki.Date: 1995- Books
The mainstreaming of complementary and alternative medicine : studies in social context / edited by Philip Tovey, Gary Easthope and Jon Adams ; foreword by Bryan S. Turner.
Date: 2004- Books
The anthropology of alternative medicine / Anamaria Iosif Ross.
Ross, Anamaria IosifDate: [2012]- Books
The story of medicine : from the Black Death to Florence Nightingale / from the makers of BBC History Magazine.
Date: 2017- Pictures
- Online
Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 16872i