Stories
- Book extract
How to manage your Schadenfreude
Do you sometimes enjoy witnessing others’ distress? Tiffany Watt Smith suggests five ways to manage - and even embrace - the perplexing emotion of Schadenfreude.
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
- Article
Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
- Article
Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 21. 'Innovation in Pain Management'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2002-2004Reference: GC/253/A/21Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Sales catalogue: Hall, Pain & Goldsmith
Date: 11 February - 14 February 1919Reference: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/308Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Opioids in non-cancer pain / Dr. Cathy Stannard, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Pain Clinic, Macmillan Centre, North Bristol NHS Trust, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK, Dr. Michael Coupe, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, Combe Park, Bath, UK, Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University of Bristol, UK, Dr. Anthony Pickering, Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow and Reader in Neuroscience, School of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Bristol, UK, Honorary Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Stannard, Catherine F.Date: [2013]- Books
Diagnosis and management of pain in patients with cancer / Ronald Kanner.
Kanner, Ronald, 1947-Date: 1988- Books
Opioids and pain relief : a historical perspective / editor, Marcia L. Meldrum.
Date: [2003], ©2003