Stories
- 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.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Article
The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
- Article
Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Various reports - UK
Date: 1989-2011Reference: SA/SCT/B/2/17Part of: Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre- Books
- Online
Research resources in medical history : directory of grants awarded, 2000/01 - 2011/12 / The Wellcome Trust.
Wellcome Trust (London, England)Date: [2012]- Books
"What if a building could talk?".
Burcham, DouglasDate: 2019- Books
Reports of the Air Medical Investigation Committee. 8, The effects of diminished tension of oxygen, with especial reference to the activity of the adrenal glands. 9, The ear in relation to certain disabilities in flying.
Great Britain. Medical Research Committee. Air Medical Investigation Committee.Date: 1919- Books
Some people say that only people benefit from animal research ... : keeping animals healthy / The Physiological Society.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999?]