Stories
- Article
Mistakes and perfect medicine
This week our anonymous GP reflects on how a mistake made in a busy, stressful environment could have had serious consequences.
- 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.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Article
Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
- Online
Medicine Man - eye defect teaching models
- Digital Images
- Online
Medicine Man - eye defect teaching models
- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 46. 'Clinical Cancer Genetics: Case Study and Context c. 1975 - c. 2010'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2011 - 2013Reference: GC/253/A/46Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Study notes on diseases of strain and stress - a review of psychosomatic disorders, Institute of Religion and Medicine
Date: 1970Reference: PP/HCT/D/18Part of: Trowell, The Rev Dr Hubert Carey (Hugh)- Archives and manuscripts
History of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) c. 1980 - 2000
Date: 2010 - 2012