Stories
- Article
Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 56. 'The Development of Waste Management in the UK'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2015Reference: GC/253/A/56Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Privies of Wales / J. Aelwyn Roberts.
Roberts, J. Aelwyn.Date: 2000- Books
Where to go in York : the history of public conveniences in the city of York / by Hugh Murray.
Murray, Hugh, 1931-Date: 2000- Books
The British experience with river pollution, 1865-1876 / Lawrence E. Breeze.
Breeze, Lawrence E., 1922-Date: [1993], ©1993- Books
Plumbing the body politic : a political ecology of water and waste in Berlin, 1850-1880 / by Mark Edward O'Malley.
O'Malley, Mark Edward.Date: 1997