Stories
- In pictures
Chinese pillow history
What is the ideal pillow? In Chinese culture, the ideal shifted over time, and views on a good sleep also reveal attitudes about studying, love, food and drink.
- Article
NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
- Article
How the mental health system fails Black people
Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.
- Article
Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
Catalogue
- Books
Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl].
Bylebyl, Jerome J. (Jerome Joseph), 1943-Date: [1976]- Books
Almost persuaded : American physicians and compulsory health insurance, 1912-1920 / Ronald L. Numbers.
Numbers, Ronald L.Date: [1978], ©1978- Books
Doctors of conscience : the struggle to provide abortion before and after Roe v. Wade / Carole Joffe.
Joffe, Carole E.Date: [1995], ©1995- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 41. 'History of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2009 - 2011Reference: GC/253/A/41Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Women's health or social control? : the role of the medical profession in relation to factory legislation in late nineteenth-century Britain / Barbara Harrison.
Harrison, Barbara.Date: 1991