Stories
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
- Article
Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
Catalogue
- Books
The story of scabies - IV : At-Tabari discoverer of the Acarus Scabiei / Reuben Friedman.
Friedman, Reuben, 1892-Date: 1997- Books
The politics of vaccination : a global history / edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume and Paul Greenough.
Date: 2017- Books
Bibliography of the history of medicine of the United States and Canada - 1954 / edited by Genevieve Miller.
Date: [1955]- Books
From specifity to universalism in medical therapeutics : transformation in the nineteenth century United States / John Harley Warner.
Warner, John Harley, 1953-Date: 1990- Film
Better odds for a longer life.
Date: 1966