Stories
- Article
Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
- Article
Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
Catalogue
- Books
Dr Brighton's Indian patients December 1914 - January 1916 / by Joyce Collins.
Collins, Joyce.Date: [1997]- Books
Canada's nursing sisters / G.W.L. Nicholson.
Nicholson, G. W. L. (Gerald William Lingen), 1902-1980.Date: [1975], ©1975- Books
Nurse at the trenches / Agnes Warner.
Warner, Agnes.Date: 2005- Books
Veiled warriors : allied nurses of the First World War / Christine E. Hallett.
Hallett, Christine E.Date: 2014- Books
Kriegskrankenpflege im Ersten Weltkrieg : das Pflegepersonal der freiwilligen Krankenpflege in den Etappen des Deutschen Kaiserreichs / von Astrid Stölzle.
Stölzle, Astrid.Date: 2013