Stories
- Article
Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
- 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.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- Article
The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 55. 'A History of Bovine TB' c. 1965 - c. 1995'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2015Reference: GC/253/A/55Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 42. "History of British Intensive Care, C. 1950 - C.2000"
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2009 - 2011Reference: GC/253/A/42Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 61. 'The Development of Rural Medicine C. 1970 - C. 2000'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2010 - 2017Reference: GC/253/A/61Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
History 3 - Woman in Medicine: Various Papers
Date: 1910-1980Reference: SA/MWF/C.7-9Part of: Medical Women's Federation- 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