Stories
- In pictures
The history of sanatoriums and surveillance
The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.
- In pictures
Dark Matter responds to ‘Epidemic threats and racist legacies’
Animated-collage artist Dark Matter brings his unique combination of live footage and archive imagery to respond to a text suggesting that the field of epidemiology emerged in the 19th century imbued with the doctrine of Western imperialism.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Memoranda for Emergency Treatment"
Date: early 20th centuryReference: WF/M/P/02/10Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Videos
Emergency treatment of dento facial abscesses.
Date: Between 1900 and 1999- Books
Emergency treatment of the injured and the sick at sea / by J. Wilson Reid.
Reid, J. Wilson.Date: [1940?]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts 1890-1930. Abridged List of Forms and Records required by local health authorities, mental hospitals... under the provisions of the Mental Treatment Rules 1948 and National Health Service (Emergency Mental Treatment Regulations) 1948
Date: 1948Reference: RET 1/5/5/2/1/37Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
Emergency treatment of casualties : a short course in life-saving procedures.
Date: [1971], ©1971