Stories
- Article
Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
- 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, history and the present / Nikolas Rose.
Rose, Nikolas S.Date: 1994- Archives and manuscripts
History of 20th Century Medicine newsletter
Date: 1996-2003Reference: WT/D/7/6/3Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Journals
Research publications / Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine.
Date: 1979- Books
- Online
Medicine and science in the 1860s : proceedings of the sixth British Congress on the History of Medicine, University of Sussex, 6-9 September 1967 / edited by F.N.L. Poynter.
British Congress on the History of Medicine 1967 : University of Sussex)Date: 1968- Journals
Newsletter / Scottish Society of the History of Medicine.
Date: 1972-