Needle, a small London-based group, led the early fight for patient rights. Leona Letts reveals how they championed giving ...

'Finger Talk' is a new British Sign Language (BSL) artwork by Cathy Mager that invites you to enter a space shaped by deaf perspectives.

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Bible. O.T. Isaiah 13-14. Jeremiah 50-1. A large green serpent is coiled around a pillar in the centre. It may be the serpent/dragon mentioned in the apocryphal 'Bel and the Dragon', which was ...

Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1932 / Papworth Village Settlement.Papworth Village Settlement (Cambridge, England) ...

In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...

How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...

Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...

show credit information for image 'Legacies of eugenics in school' Legacies of eugenics in school. © Gergo Varga (varrgo.com) for Wellcome Collection. When A-level ...

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...

show credit information for image 'Sex work, stigma and whorephobia' Sex work, stigma and whorephobia. © Jessa Fairbrother for Wellcome Collection. Some years ago ...

Africanus Horton Road runs through the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. My dad studied medicine here before graduating at the tender age of 21 (he was something of a child prodigy). He then moved to ...