Stories
- Article
How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
- Book extract
Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
- Article
Menstruation, magic and moon myths
Why do stories cloaking periods in magic and mystery persist? Pragya Agarwal argues against myth-making and for inclusive menstrual education, grounded in fact.
- Article
We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies
Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 51. 'The Recent History of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2012 - 2014Reference: GC/253/A/51Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
The recent history of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) : the transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the History of Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary, University of London, on 10 December 2013 / edited by C Overy and E M Tansey.
Date: 2014- Books
- Online
The Recent History of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) : the transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary, University of London, on 10 December 2013 / edited by E. M. Jones and E. M. Tansey.
Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
Audio Recording of Seminar
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 11 December 2013Reference: GC/253/A/51/6Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Digital images related to the seminar subject
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 8 April 2003-6 May 2014Reference: GC/253/A/51/5aPart of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars