Stories
- Article
Six personal health zines that might change your life
Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.
- Article
Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
- Article
Why gene editing can never eliminate disability
In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.
- Long read
Love, grief and assisted dying
In this deeply affecting story, Michelle Elliot explores the events and emotions around the time of her mother’s medically assisted death in Canada, where the practice is legal.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services in Lewisham and North Southwark
Date: 1982-2014Reference: MS.9178/2Part of: Dr Christine Watson: materials on family planning in South London- Archives and manuscripts
Optimum Health Services: Leaflets
Date: 1990sReference: MS.9178/2/2/2Part of: Dr Christine Watson: materials on family planning in South London- Archives and manuscripts
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health, Annual Report
Date: 2014/2015Reference: MS.9178/2/4Part of: Dr Christine Watson: materials on family planning in South London- Archives and manuscripts
Optimum Health Services: Review of Family Planning and Well Woman Services
Date: 1991-1999Reference: MS.9178/2/2/1Part of: Dr Christine Watson: materials on family planning in South London- Archives and manuscripts
Optimum Health Services
Date: 1991-1999Reference: MS.9178/2/2Part of: Dr Christine Watson: materials on family planning in South London