Stories
- Article
Chemotherapy-day drawings
Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
- Article
Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
- Article
Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes
After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Still Life: 1
Amiss, Audrey, 1933-2013.Date: 1940s-1960sReference: PP/AMI/C/2/7Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Two pencil drawings in brown, blue, green, pink, yellow, red and orange
Amiss, Audrey, 1933-2013Date: c.1950s-2000sReference: PP/AMI/C/3/19/8Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Pictures
Adamson handling and display collection: reproductions of paintings and drawings by people with mental illness ca. 1946-1990. Colour photographs, 2017.
Date: [2017]Reference: 3025646i- Books
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Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, including their private life, government, laws, art, manufactures, religions, and early history; derived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existng, with the accounts of ancient authors. Illustrated by drawings of those subjects / By J.G. Wilkinson.
Wilkinson, John Gardner, 1797-1875.Date: 1837- Archives and manuscripts
Crayon drawing in blue, purple, and green and pencil drawing in grey.
Amiss, Audrey, 1933-2013Date: c.1950s-2000sReference: PP/AMI/C/3/19/6Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive