Stories
- Article
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?
- Article
Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
- Article
Theriac: An ancient brand?
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
Medicine in literature.
Date: [2002]- Books
Recognitions : doctors and their stories : a collection of original works in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Center for Literature, Medicine and the Health Care Professions / edited by Carol Donley and Martin Kohn.
Date: 2002- Books
Medicine in literature / A.C. Corcoran.
Corcoran, Arthur Curtis, 1909-1965.Date: 1960- Archives and manuscripts
083332/Z/07/Z: Medicine in Literature Programming Strand of The Time Cheltenham Literature Festival
Date: 2007Reference: WT/C/6/1/108Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Medicine in literature / [compiled by] Joseph Ceccio.
Date: [1978], ©1978