Stories
- Article
Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
- Photo story
Portraits, from a distance
Join photographer Michelle Sank on her daily walk around Exeter. Strength, frustration, resilience and eccentricity all show in these candid images portraying life under the constraints of coronavirus lockdown.
- Photo story
Temporary chroma key memorials
In this imaginary podcast, artist A R Hopwood creates a scene where he interviews his friend and former collaborator ‘Paul’, who died by suicide in 2019.
- Article
Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Moving on with Burroughs Wellcome (USA)
Date: c.1980Reference: WF/M/I/SL/32Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd
- Books
- Online
Moving images of medical science and history : a catalogue of film and video titles held by the Wellcome Trust and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / [compiled by Michael J. Clark.].
Wellcome Trust (London, England)Date: [1992]
- Pictures
- Online
People in a street market in South Africa; representing rights and responsibilities in avoidance and treatment of AIDS. Lithograph after Moving Images, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 646419i- Archives and manuscripts
"Images of AYA"
Date: 2005Reference: PP/CLI/C/5/8bPart of: Paul Clift: archives- Archives and manuscripts
M0007760: Chair used in the ward for moving patients, used by Joseph Lister
Date: April 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/66/91Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive