Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- 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.
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
Catalogue
- Journals
Annual report / Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.Date: 2001-- Archives and manuscripts
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London programme, 2001-2002
Date: 2001Reference: WT/D/7/8/2Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Brochures for the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
Date: 2000sReference: WT/C/7/4/1Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL brochures
Date: 2000-c.2006Reference: WT/D/7/8/1Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Migration, health and ethnicity in the modern world / edited by Catherine Cox, director, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin, Ireland and Hilary Marland, professor of history, University of Warwick, UK.
Date: 2013