Stories
- Article
Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
- Article
How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Robert, Dr. (fl. 1806)
Date: 1806Reference: MS.7469/122Part of: Miscellany: French, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Reports of Dr Robert Shaw
Date: 1955-c.2001Reference: PP/RMS/APart of: Shaw, Dr Robert Macdonald (1912-2000)- Audio
Dr. Arthur Hollman interviews Lord Amulree, Wilfred Robert Trotter.
Date: 1974- Videos
Dr. Robert Bolton home movies. Compilation 1, Peckham Pioneer Health Centre.
Date: 1931-5- Books
Dr Robert Good.
Date: [date of publication not identified]