Stories
- Article
A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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Photographs as evidence of gender identity and sexuality
Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Bunsen, Robert (1811-1899), German chemist
Bunsen, R. (Robert), 1811-1899Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.8802- Pictures
- Online
A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
Nittinger, Carl Georg Gottlob.Date: 1856Reference: 17876i- Books
Sanitätsrat Dr. Karl Adolf von Basedow (28.3.1799-14.4.1854) : Kreisphysikus von Merseburg / Herbert Broghammer.
Broghammer, Herbert.Date: 2000- Books
From pathology to public sphere : the German deaf movement, 1848-1914 / Ylva Söderfeldt.
Söderfeldt, Ylva.Date: [2013]- Books
Ignaz Schwörer (1800-1860) : Freiburger Geburtshelfer zwischen Romantik und Positivismus ; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der medizinischen Ethik im 19. Jahrhundert / E. Caroline Jagella.
Jagella, E. Caroline.Date: 2004