Stories
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
History of Medicine
Date: Jun 1957-Oct 1974Reference: PP/MKH/A/9Part of: Ronald MacKeith (1908-1977)- Archives and manuscripts
History of medicine - Wellcome History of 20th Century Medicine group
Date: 1991-1994Reference: PP/AJB/3/26Part of: Beale, (Alan) John (1923-2005), Virologist- Archives and manuscripts
History of Medicine Advisory Panel meeting papers, 12 November 1980
Date: November 1980Reference: WT/C/1/2/26Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
History of Medicine Advisory Panel meeting papers, 17 May 1973
Date: May 1973Reference: WT/C/1/2/14Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
History of Medicine Advisory Panel meeting papers, 17 November 1972
Date: November 1972Reference: WT/C/1/2/13Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive