Stories
- Article
Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
- Article
The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Pearson, Richard, L.R.C.P. (1765-1836), Birmingham physician and antiquary
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7492- Books
- Online
A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green.
Date: 1914- Books
From pathology to public sphere : the German deaf movement, 1848-1914 / Ylva Söderfeldt.
Söderfeldt, Ylva.Date: [2013]- Books
Justinus Kerner, 1786-1862 : Arzt - Poet - Geisterseher, nebst Anmerkungen zum Uhland-Kerner-Kreis und zur Medizin- und Geistesgeschichte im Zeitalter der Romantik / Otto-Joachim Grüsser.
Grüsser, Otto-Joachim.Date: 1987- Books
German-American links in 19th-century pharmacy / by Armin Wankmüller.
Wankmüller, Armin.Date: 1985