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Spring ‘Wellcome News’ out now
Wellcome News 70, spring 2012 The latest Wellcome News is out now, bursting with stories about the people, projects and research that we support. In this issue, we hear from people working in a...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: TB Warning
March 24th is World Tuberculosis Day. It commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced he had discovered the cause of TB by successfully isolating the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis,...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Rehabilitation of injured sailors (Parts 1 & 2),...
These newly discovered films have been languishing in obscurity in our film store until a recent preservation audit to detect vinegar syndrome across our film collection unearthed some uncatalogued...
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That organ ‘the brain’
To mark Wellcome Collection’s latest enticing exhibition, over the next few weeks we’re running a short series highlighting some of the research into this fascinating organ. Is size everything? We know...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: The Wellcome Trust in Thailand (1987)
This week we launched a 20 year review of research into malaria, coinciding with World Malaria Day. This film portrays the work of the Wellcome Trust-supported clinical research unit based in Mahidol...
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Maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics
The general thrust of each of the Wellcome Trust’s challenge areas are, on the face of it, fairly self-evident. For instance, ‘Maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics’ pretty much says...
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New Generation Thinking
Dr Matthew Smith Dr Matthew Smith is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde and works in the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, Glasgow. He was recently...
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Piano plague in D minor
Why would 19th-century doctors want to ban piano lessons for girls? Did they truly believe that learning to play music could cause sexual and neurotic disorders? Or were there sociological reasons for...
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On desire and reflections of self
What does our perception of Female Sexual Dysfunction say about our societal perception of female sexuality, desire, and indeed our reflection of ourselves? Katherine Angel discusses. My academic...
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Food allergy and hyperactivity: histories of medical controversy
The journey of a new medical concept from radical theory to mainstream medicine is often dogged by controversy. Dr Matthew Smith (left) argues that such controversies are fuelled by simplistic,...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Maternity
Maternity: a film of Queen Charlotte’s Hospital is one of the gems of Wellcome Library’s film collection. This semi-professional film captures many historically interesting aspects of antenatal and...
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Book Prize Blog: Circulation – William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea, by Thomas...
Cover image for ‘Circulation’ Next up on our Book Prize Blog is ‘Circulation‘, Thomas Wright’s biography of the seventeenth century physician William Harvey. Holly Story dissects the book. In Thomas...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Acute Encephalitis Lethargica (1925)
This is a short filmed case study of a female patient with encephalitis lethargica; an epidemic illness that appeared between 1915 and 1926 affecting the nervous system. We still understand little...
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Losing face? The symbolism of facial mutilation
Facial mutilation is a repugnant crime, but its medieval use as a punishment may have had some symbolic significance. Penny Bailey explores a Wellcome Trust-funded project on the history of facial...
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On the rocks with a twist
The centenary of Robert Scott’s expedition to the South Pole is being celebrated this year, but what about some of the forgotten tales of the heroic age? I spoke to Dr Henry Guly about his research...
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How can history help the global health community today?
False coloured light micrograph of MRSA colonies. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium which is difficult to treat due to its resistance to common forms of antibiotics. The...
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The Livingstone Legacy
David Livingstone and his followers on a boat, attacked by a hippopotamus. From abolishing slavery in Africa to changing the face of tropical medicine, David Livingstone was an extraordinary man. Mike...
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Beyond the asylum: Looking back on mental health
Professor Barbara Taylor – a historian at Queen Mary, University of London – is best known for her work on the history of feminism. But in writing a new book to be published next year, she has been...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Spot the midwife
The topic of childbirth appears in a large number of the films and videos in the Moving Image & Sound collection of the Wellcome Library (a list below). Although many of the titles show in some...
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February 2013 public engagement events
February is a month of cold, windy weather and waiting for spring to arrive. We’ve put together a summary of the Trust’s public engagement events this month to bring some excitement to the year’s...
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