Stories
- Article
The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
- Interview
Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Article
Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain
After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Wall charts illustrating lectures and papers, especially on vaccination
Date: c. 1895-1905Reference: MS.5799Part of: Acland, Theodore Dyke (1851-1931)- Archives and manuscripts
Colour slides, including home management teaching unit; Wall Day Hospital nursery and exteriors; psychogeriatric occupational therapy and social activities; staff groups and meetings; Woodcote Assessment Unit rehabilitation and occupational therapy; 'employment office'; charts and graphs for redeveloping the hospital; assembling car parts; learning to spend money
Date: 1960s-1970sReference: PP/RKF/B.17/2/14Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
C. elegans clone maps 'wall charts'
Date: 1997Reference: PP/COU/B/1/31Part of: Coulson, Alan- Archives and manuscripts
St Albans Education Group resources and wall charts
Date: c.1995Reference: SA/NCT/F/5/1/1/3Part of: National Childbirth Trust (NCT)- Pictures
Models of health and neatness for children: taking pride in cleanliness and grooming. Colour lithograph by W.D.M. Townshend.
Townshend, W. D. M.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 46954iPart of: New Era Class Pictures & Charts