Stories
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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Chemotherapy-day drawings
Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.
Catalogue
- Videos
The brain with David Eagleman. 2, What makes me me?.
Date: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000282 - C0000327
Date: 1994-1995Reference: WT/B/11/1/7Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Videos
The mid-brain infant.
Date: 1925 / 1960- Videos
Could fish make my child smart?.
Date: 2005- Books
Everything that makes us human : case notes of a children's brain surgeon / Jay Jayamohan.
Jayamohan, JayDate: 2020