Stories
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
Catalogue
- Journals
- Online
English literature in transition, 1880-1920
Date: 1963-2020- Archives and manuscripts
Vasoxine (Pressor Agent - Anaesthesia)
Date: 1959-1986Reference: WF/M/PL/413Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Foundation Product Literature
Date: c.1900-c.1992Reference: WF/M/PLPart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Leukeran [(treatment of malignant lymphomas) - first marketed UK in November 1956]
Date: 1956-1981Reference: WF/M/PL/180Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
500 years of gnosis in Europe : exhibition of printed books and manuscripts from the gnostic tradition, Moscow & St. Petersburg = 500 let gnozisa v Evrope gnosticheskai︠a︡ tradi︠t︡si︠︡ia v pechatnykh i rukopisnykh knigakh, Moskva - Sankt-Peterburg / organized by Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, M.I. Rudomino Russian State Library for Foreign Literature ; from the collections of Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam [and others] ; [compiled by Carlos Gilly ; in collaboration with Marina Afanasyeva].
Date: 1993