Stories
- Article
The epilepsy diagnosis
Epilepsy exists between the mind and body, something that Aparna Nair experienced for herself when she was diagnosed as a teenager.
- Article
The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Product Publications: Science in Medicine - Wellcome Products for Dispensing
Date: 1908-1953Reference: WF/M/PB/34/03/08Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Lab Lore - Volume 4
Date: 1970-1972Reference: WF/M/PB/02/03/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
KtwIf: Chlamydia - Diagnosis
Date: 1997-2005Reference: SA/WHL/14/35/23Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
KwkIez: Screening for Cervical Cancer - Wrong Diagnosis
Date: 1997-1999Reference: SA/WHL/14/38/15Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Letters from David Evans concerning article he wrote for the British Journal of Hospital Medicine with said article attached, "Brain Stem death - 20 Years On" and copy of letter he wrote to BMJ and articles on brain stem death and transplants; 2 articles by D. Evans on organ transplants; editorial comment about article Pappworth wrote in World Medicine; copy letter to Prof Slaney from Evans et al re diagnosis of death and 2 letters from Evans to Drs Dawson & Hoffenberg re `Daytime' tv programme (aired December 1986); "Brain Stem Death - 10 Years On" by D. W. Evans and D. J. Hill
Date: 1970-1991Reference: PP/MHP/D.2/7Part of: Pappworth, Maurice