Showing posts with label history of medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history of medicine. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Guest Post: Wellcome Film added to the Medical Heritage Library

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A collaboration among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, the Medical Heritage Library (MHL) promotes free and open access to qu...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Guest Post: Bathing with Sheeps' Heads: The Sick Child in Early Modern England

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Dr Hannah Newton is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Here, she provides insights into the treatment and experience o...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Lecture Announcement - Sustaining Plague Mortality in Late Medieval Milan

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The Wellcome Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities 2012 Summer Seminar, ‘ Health and Disease in the Middle Ages ’, are delig...

Guest Post: Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease

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Dr James Kennaway is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease at Durham University. Here he d...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

Birth: a changing scene. Part I: Images of home birth in the Wellcome Library

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Library Assistant Anna Ostrowska shares with us some of her research for her recent Wellcome Library Insight Session . With current home bir...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Guest Post: Little Ilford School ‘Science Club’

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In our latest posting from the Science Club, Rebekah and friends report on a day in the Wellcome exploring X-rays: 'On Wednesday 18 Apri...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Guest Post: Little Ilford School ‘Science Club’

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In the second post from our Year 9 friends at Little Ilford School, here are Edward and Farzana reflecting on their visit and the four humou...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Damaging the Body: Changing Models of Alcohol Harm

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The second seminar in the series  Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 - 2010 , will take place in the Wellcome Library this ...
Sunday, March 25, 2012

Wellcome Library Masterclass: Interpreting Caricature

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At this new Wellcome Library event, attendees will be introduced to items from our collections, interpreted by acknowledged experts. On the ...
Monday, March 19, 2012

New seminar series: Damaging the Body

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We are pleased to announce the details of a new academic seminar series, Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 - 2010 , to be ...

Saving Oxford's Medicine

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Launched last year, Saving Oxford Medicine is an initiative from our friends at the Bodleian Library to survey, catalogue and promote the ar...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Online resource: Journal of the American Medical Association – all back issues now available

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The Library is delighted to announce that we recently purchased access to the complete back files of the Journal of the American Medical Ass...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Item of the Month, January 2012: Everard Digby's De Arte Natandi

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As the Olympic Games move ever nearer and as swimming is a sport for which Team GB has high hopes of medal success, we've dived into ou...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The discovery of insulin

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Today marks the 90th anniversary of the first time insulin was used on a human patient. A brief summary of this event runs as follows: the i...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Guest Post: Exploring Health and Medicine in Early Modern Wales

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Dr Alun Withey is an academic historian of early modern medicine, technology and the family. Here, he describes the inspiration and context...