Stories
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- 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.
- 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.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
Catalogue
- Books
Veterinary medicine in Michigan : an illustrated history / by Charles Cleon Morrill.
Morrill, Charles Cleon, 1907-Date: [1979], ©1979- Journals
- Online
Bulletin of the history of medicine
Date: 1939-- Books
Bibliography of the history of medicine of the United States and Canada - 1954 / edited by Genevieve Miller.
Date: [1955]- Archives and manuscripts
'Medical Women's Federation: lecture notes on the history of women in medicine', typescript
Reference: SA/MWF/C.7/3Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
P'i in the history of Chinese medicine / Hiromichi Yasui.
Yasui, Hiromichi.Date: 1977