Stories
- 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.
- Article
Diagnosing the past
Historical texts rarely supply enough detail for a definitive diagnosis, so medical historians need to proceed with caution.
- Interview
Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing
James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
Catalogue
- Books
Primitive medicine / M.F. Ashley Montagu.
Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999.Date: 1946- Books
Primitive medicine in the Philippines / by Anastacia Villegas.
Villegas, Anastacia.Date: 1923- Books
Primitive and archaic medicine / Henry E. Sigerist.
Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957.Date: 1967- Books
A cheap, safe and natural medicine : religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley's Primitive Physic / Deborah Madden.
Madden, Deborah, 1970-Date: 2007- Books
Primitive religion and healing : a study of folk medicine in North-East Brazil / Paul V.A. Williams.
Williams, Paul V. A.Date: 1979