Stories
- Article
The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
- Article
Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
- Long read
Love, grief and assisted dying
In this deeply affecting story, Michelle Elliot explores the events and emotions around the time of her mother’s medically assisted death in Canada, where the practice is legal.
Catalogue
- Books
A case of surgical amputation from aboriginal Peru / by Spencer L. Rogers.
Rogers, Spencer Lee, 1905-Date: 1973- Books
Randomised preference trial of medical versus surgical termination of pregnancy less than 14 weeks' gestation (TOPS) / S.C. Robson ... [and 8 others].
Date: 2009- Books
The evolution of surgical instruments : an illustrated history from ancient times to the twentieth century / John Kirkup ; with a foreword by James M. Edmonson.
Kirkup, John.Date: 2006- Books
Spare-part surgery : the surgical practice of the future / edited and illustrated by M. Ross-Macdonald.
Longmore, Donald.Date: [1968]- Books
Drawings and pharmacy in al-Zahrāwī's 10th-century surgical treatise / [Sami Khalaf Hamarneh].
Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, 1925-2010.Date: [1961]