Stories
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
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Invisibility
Why do menopausal women feel invisible? Because nobody talks about menopause or because society doesn't value older women?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Maps
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1992-2004Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/24Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Das präventive Selbst : eine Kulturgeschichte moderner Gesundheitspolitik / Martin Lengwiler, Jeannette Madarász (Hg.).
Date: [2010]- Pictures
Six vignettes of self-help hydrotherapy. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 11902i- Books
Das Geschlecht des "präventiven Selbst" : Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aus geschlechterspezifischer Perspektive (1949-2010) / von Pierre Pfütsch.
Pfütsch, PierreDate: 2017- Books
Heavy flow : breaking the curse of menstruation / Amanda Laird.
Laird, AmandaDate: [2019]