Stories
- Article
The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist
Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
- Article
How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
- Article
Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 58. 'Air Pollution Research in Britain c.1955 - c.2000'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2014 - 2016Reference: GC/253/A/58Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Trust Funded Research Centres - data
Date: January 1998-December 2001Reference: WT/C/2/6/4Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Medical Research Council (MRC) - Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine - Brenner Building
Date: 2005Reference: SB/5/1/37Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Science Research Council - Shanes
Date: 1955-1982Reference: PP/MLV/C/19/10Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
tropmedres.ac : 30 years of the Wellcome Trust - Mahidol University - Oxford - Tropical Medicine Research Programme.
Date: [2009]