Stories
- In pictures
Testimonies of birth
A 1980s film about childbirth explores how the experience felt for the women featured and offers a glimpse into the big birthing trends of the day.
- Article
Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
- Article
Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Viewpoint"
Date: 28 Oct 1987Reference: PP/WDS/E.4/24Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)- Journals
Viewpoint : newsletter of the British Society for the History of Science.
British Society for the History of Science.Date: 2006-- Videos
Heaven must wait.
Date: 1992- Videos
Heaven must wait.
Date: 1992- Archives and manuscripts
Viewpoints on the study of drug toxicity. Volume 2
Date: 1963Reference: SA/ETX/F/1/2Part of: Archive of EUROTOX and Predecessor Bodies