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Cambridge Science Festival 2013
Next week sees the start of the annual Cambridge Science Festival, your opportunity to discover, question and take part in scientific activity at the University of Cambridge. We’ve put together a quick...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: The Sardinian Project (1949)
Our film of the month for March is The Sardinian project (1949), which is about how malaria was eradicated from the island just after the Second World War. The history of malaria runs in parallel with...
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John Snow: medical detective
John Snow, 1856. As the world celebrates the bicentenary of John Snow’s birth, Jimmy Whitworth reminds us how an inquisitive Victorian came to profoundly change public health. During March and April of...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Your children’s sleep
This film is from a government-sponsored series aimed at parents and looking at different aspects of parenting in the 1940s. It was made by Realist Film Unit and comes to us courtesy of the BFI...
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Life at the end: historical reflections on palliative medicine
Illustration by Marianne Dear What does end-of-life care really mean and how has it changed in recent history? Tilli Tansey reflects. ‘Is it really history?’ is a question I’m used to being asked. I’m...
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Elizabeth Blackwell: the first women to qualify as a doctor in America
Elizabeth Blackwell. Photomechanical print by Swaine. by Sarah Blackmore, University of Bristol Most people, if asked to name historical influential females in the world of medicine, would probably...
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Wellcome Image of the Week: Penicillium
Our image of the week depicts the mould Penicillium, which produces the antibiotic penicillin. Moulds are a type of fungus, and reproduce using the spores that you can see in the picture. The...
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Of English bloodhounds and indigenous medicine
Delegates at iCHSTM 2013 Along with the sunshine, July brought another extraordinary event to the city of Manchester – the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology & Medicine...
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Wellcome Image of the Week: Mosquito net veil
This week we marked World Mosquito Day with a blog post about some of the work that Wellcome Trust is funding in the area of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes. Mosquito nets are another popular...
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Fighting fit: How dietitians tested if Britain would be starved into defeat
Congratulations to Laura Dawes, whose entry to the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize was highly commended by the judges and published on the Guardian Science Blog today. Her piece tells of a crucial...
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The revenge of the Americas
Katherine Wright won in the professional scientist category of this year’s Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Her winning entry was published in the Observer on Sunday and has attracted hundreds of...
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I’m exhausted, is something wrong with me?
A recent conference held at the University of Kent, funded by a Wellcome Trust medical humanities small grant explored the different medical, psychiatric, and social narratives on the origins and cures...
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First Wellcome Trust open access book looks at history of fungal disease
Earlier this year, the Wellcome Trust extended its open access policy to include monographs and scholarly publications, and today our first open access monograph is published, a history of fungal...
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Shedding light on this history of phototherapy
With the long, dark days of winter upon us, sunlight seems like a distant dream – but Wellcome Trust Research Fellow Dr Tania Woloshyn is absorbed with light. Researching the history of light therapy,...
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Image of the Week: Amputation
This looks like a horrifying suggestion for DIY surgery – using a hammer and a chisel-like object to amputate a big toe – but it’s actually an illustration from an 18th century medical dictionary....
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Image of the Week: Leech jar
This decorated pottery jar, made by Samuel Alcock and Co, was once used to store leeches in a pharmacy before they were sold to physicians. Historically leeches were used thought to cure all sorts of...
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Image of the Week: Artificial Eyes
Q: What connects Shakespeare, Sammy Davies Junior and Nick Griffin? A: Artificial eyes, as featured in this Image of the Week. Shakespeare wrote of them in King Lear – “get thee glass eyes; and, like...
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Research Spotlight: Prof Daniel Pick
Professor Daniel Pick holds a senior investigator award from the Wellcome Trust and is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a qualified psychoanalyst and Fellow of...
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From Torture to Treatment: One Man’s Fight to Revolutionise Mental Health...
Wellcome Trust funded researcher Professor John Foot spent two years exploring the history of revolutionary psychiatrist Franco Basaglia. Basaglia’s views on the treatment of psychiatric patients...
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Image of the Week: Dissection
This week’s image of the week is interesting for a number of reasons. At first glance, it looks like a delicate antique fan that might keep you cool in the heat of summer, but in reality it is...
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