works

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Wellcome Café

Wellcome Kitchen

Wellcome Shop

Wellcome Collection will have reduced opening hours from 10am to 5pm from Tuesday 21 until Sunday 26 June, due to disruption caused by industrial strike action affecting UK transport networks. We apologise for any inconvenience caused during this week. 

We’re undertaking research with website visitors to find out some more about you and what you thought about your visit. This survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time!

What brought you to our website today?

Studies of current health problems

The health care dilemma or "Am I kranken, doctor ?" / Office of Health Economics.

6 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 11 cm

Sick day.

My endometreosis symptoms / by Laura Saunders.

Eros and Illness explores the place of desire in illness. We urgently need such an exploration because illness is no longer simply a natural feature of the human condition. Most people fall ill, but illness now falls under the supervision of biomedicine, a science-based, state-regulated system dominated by the new molecular gaze. The use of a person's distinctive genetic data to guide treatment and to forestall disease--called "personalized medicine"-- reflects how the molecular gaze can produce valuable advances in biomedical healthcare. What does this indispensable super-vision, however, tend to overlook? Eros and Illness proposes that biomedicine ignores, in clinical practice and in bench science, the powerful role of desire in illness. Desire, always double-edged, requires attention because it can do both great harm and great good. Patients, caregivers, family members, and physicians, as they recognize the role of desire, gain access to a power that can make the passage through illness much less onerous and far more healing: truly "personalized." --

350 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm

Eros and illness / David B. Morris.

"A meld of essay, memoir, and story, When the Sick Rule the World collects Dodie Bellamy's new and recent lyric prose. Taking on topics as eclectic as vomit, Kathy Acker's wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, Bellamy here examines illness, health, and the body -- both the social body and the individual body -- in essays that glitter with wit even at their darkest moments" --Provided by publisher.

Semiotext(e) active agents series

When the sick rule the world / Dodie Bellamy.

Leaves falling gently : living fully with serious & life-limiting illness through mindfulness, compassion, & connectedness / Susan Bauer-Wu ; foreword by Joan Halifax.

Imagination and medicine : the future of healing in an age of neuroscience / edited by Stephen Aizenstat and Robert Bosnak.

Endo-thoughts : a zine about endometriosis / by Laura Saunders.

Using fictionalized case studies this series follows four patients through the medical process, from onset (Symptom) through Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis
Volume 1: Symptom. Examines the idea of 'symptom' as a route to understanding the structure of clinical practice -- Volume 2: Diagnosis. Explores the meaning of 'diagnosis' as a complex, culturally mediated interaction between individuals, scientific discoveries, social negotiation and historical change. -- Volume 3: Treatment. Considers the concept of treatment as an active process which produces an outcome, be it effective, inappropriate or inadequate. Enlightening reading. -- Volume 4: Prognosis. Contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, attempting to make sense of life and death. Considers, through personal and professional perspectives, the role of the medical profession in guiding patient experience.

Medical humanities companion.

A literary conversation about illness and care giving between patient and nurse, mother and daughter.

Wellcome uses cookies.

More filters

Active filters:

The health care dilemma or "Am I kranken, doctor ?" / Office of Health Economics.

Sick day.

My endometreosis symptoms / by Laura Saunders.

Eros and illness / David B. Morris.

When the sick rule the world / Dodie Bellamy.

Leaves falling gently : living fully with serious & life-limiting illness through mindfulness, compassion, & connectedness / Susan Bauer-Wu ; foreword by Joan Halifax.

Imagination and medicine : the future of healing in an age of neuroscience / edited by Stephen Aizenstat and Robert Bosnak.

Endo-thoughts : a zine about endometriosis / by Laura Saunders.

Medical humanities companion.

On being ill / by Virginia Woolf ; introduction by Hermione Lee.

Stay in the know

Wellcome collection

Finding us:

Opening times:

Today's opening times

Wellcome uses cookies.

Search the collections

More filters

Active filters:

The health care dilemma or "Am I kranken, doctor ?" / Office of Health Economics.

Sick day.

My endometreosis symptoms / by Laura Saunders.

Eros and illness / David B. Morris.

When the sick rule the world / Dodie Bellamy.

Leaves falling gently : living fully with serious & life-limiting illness through mindfulness, compassion, & connectedness / Susan Bauer-Wu ; foreword by Joan Halifax.

Imagination and medicine : the future of healing in an age of neuroscience / edited by Stephen Aizenstat and Robert Bosnak.

Endo-thoughts : a zine about endometriosis / by Laura Saunders.

Medical humanities companion.

On being ill / by Virginia Woolf ; introduction by Hermione Lee.

Stay in the know

Wellcome collectionWellcome Collection

Finding us:

Opening times:

Today's opening times

Wellcome collection