Stories
- Article
A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
Catalogue
- Videos
Convulsive shock therapy in affective psychoses.
Date: 1939- Videos
Congestive heart failure.
Date: 1972- Film
Congestive heart failure.
Date: 1972- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 8
Date: Jul 1904 - May 1905Reference: WF/E/01/01/08Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Women, race and class / Angela Y. Davis.
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-Date: 2019